change default permissions for folder only

[idahhan]

can I change the default permissions for the folder only without changing it for the directories ?
As umask 023 will change the default permissions for both ?

[yancek]

Is your question a type? In Unix/Linux systems they are called directories. Windows calls them folders: Directories=Folders. Do you mean files in a directory?

[idahhan]

My mistake , yea I meant files

[yancek]

I'm not clear on which way you want it. If you have files in /home/user/test/ and you just want to change the permissions for test you would navigate to the /home/user/ directory in a termina and enter the command: chmod 755 test. This will give the user rwx permission and group and others read/execute.

If that's not what you want you need to be more specific.

[hazel]

The permissions for files are not inherited in any way from the parent directory; they are completely independent. So if you change the permissions on the directory, the files it contains are not affected directly.

Of course there may be indirect effects: if you take away read/execute access on the directory, you can't get at the files, and if you take away write access, you can't rename or delete files. But the files' own permissions aren't changed.