Permissions question

[judyksp]

Thank you.

I have a very strange scenario which I cannot seem to understand. The situation is like this:

I have a directory (named as session) whose permission is drw------- and I changed it to drwxrwxrwx because I wanted to create some files and directories below it for testings.

I used chmod to change the permissions when I login as root. I find that the owner and group of the directory is apache. After changing, when I create a new file, I find that the permissions of the new file remain as -rw-------.

So I use umask and found that the value is 0022. I changed it umask 0000 to give me total access. But I still cannot create a file or directory which is read write and execute.

I reboot my server thinking that this will help. But it does not. When I type umask, it is changed back to 0022.

What is happening? How can I make the permissions I changed remain and work?

[daark.child]

By default when you create files or directories, the execute permission is not automatically set. You have to manually set execute permissions on. I think its actually a built in security feature and not a bug.

[judyksp]

I did change the permissions using chmod. But the permissions did not change for the files under that directory. So, I used umask 000 to force it down. It works until I reboot the server. Then the permissions and umask status is changed back to normal.

How can I make the change that I made stick?

[i92guboj]

I did change the permissions using chmod. But the permissions did not change for the files under that directory. So, I used umask 000 to force it down. It works until I reboot the server. Then the permissions and umask status is changed back to normal.

How can I make the change that I made stick?

If you want to make umask *permanent* you need to put the relevant umask command into your ~/.bashrc and/or ~/.bash_profile files(s).