[texhax] Umasks, Permissions, and All That

[Thomas Schneider]

Herbert:

> I inheritance of umask by root using sudo does happen when using bash.

Ok, thanks.

> The standard directories, e.g., ~/Library and ~/Documents, in my
> HOME directory, with ownership by me of course, all have permissions
> 700 so, as far as I know, others can't look inside them; no need to
> set the permissions of all the files and sub-directories of those
> directories to 700 too. Is that wrong?

I think that's right - the top level permission ought to prevent
access to the lower levels.

Tom

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