umask problem

[TSch]

Hi folks,

I'm facing the following problem:

I got a user let's say "admin" with standard group "users".
Then I got another user "

http://wwwrun"

with the same standard group.
I set umask for user admin so that all files being created by that users become writable for the group "users" by default.

However there's a certain binary being executed by user admin that creates a complex directory structure as well as lots of files within that structure.

Problem is that here the umask setting is being completely ignored. Everything that's being created by that binary is NOT writable by group "users".

e.g.:

> touch testfile
> ls -all testfile

-rw-rw-rw- 1 admin users 9216 Mar 17 06:38 testfile

> binary.file (being executed)
> ls -all file-being-created-by-binary-file.txt

-rw-r--r-- 1 admin users 9216 Mar 17 06:38 file-being-created-by-binary-file.txt

Any idea what's happening here and how we could solve this issue ??

Regards,
Thomas

 

[feherke]

Hi

You forgot to show how you set [tt]umask[/tt].

Beside that, if that binary explicitly sets the created files' permissions after creation, setting [tt]umask[/tt] will not help.


Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/

 

[TSch]

Hi there,

umask is being set in the user's .profile

Regards,
Thomas

 

[feherke]

Hi

umask is being set in the user's .profile

So my question was ambiguous. I intended to ask, to which value is set [tt]umask[/tt].


Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/