umask

Antoine Jacoutot ajacoutot at lphp.org
Thu Aug 14 15:25:20 PDT 2003


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On Thursday 14 August 2003 22:46, Jez Hancock wrote:
> > Well, I don't know what to do anymore :)
> > Maybe setting an umask of 077 only for /usr/home (using fstab) would be a
> > good start ?
>
> The only gotcha there is with httpd access - if you decide to have apache
> read documentroot folders from under /usr/home then any files your users
> create in a shell won't be accessible by the www user by default.

Well, my users don't have public html files, so this shouldn't be a problem.
Thanks a lot for the feedback.

Antoine
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