linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I want to change the automatic file permissions that are
> created on new files. Where is the file that lets me do
> that? A lot of googling got my a lot of information but
> none of it answered my question.
>
> I want to have all new files set to 644 = rw-r--r--
You want to set umask to 0022. You can set this in ~/.bashrc like so:
umask 0022
It is set to 0002 in /etc/bashrc for normal users.
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