Why is umask setting a different permission for a directory and file I have created
Consider:
[user@server1 ~]$ umask
0770
[user@server1 ~]$ mkdir TEST2; touch TEST2.txt;
[user@server1 ~]$ ls -l
d------rwx 2 user group_name 4096 Mar 5 05:16 TEST2
-------rw- 1 user group_name 0 Mar 5 05:16 TEST2.txt
Now shouldn't the file TEST2.txt
have the permission 007
as umask
is set to 0770
?
Best Answer
umask doesn't enforce rights, it forbids them. Have a look at strace:
touch doesn't ask for execution rights for a file (which wouldn't make sense).