Re: 'umask' and mounting of vfat filesystem.
Hello
Daniel M. (<xt@nm.ru>) wrote:
> Another question: my shell process's file creation mask is '0022',
> which means that if 'umask' option is not used in 'mount' command
> when mounting vfat filesystem, the default permissions would be
> '-rwxr-xr-x'. But the actual permissions I get are: '-rwxr--r--'
> (the files mentioned above once again get different permissions:
> '-r-xr--r--'). Why is that so?
Recent versions of mount use a fixed umask and ignore the current umask.
I think it was done to create /etc/mtab with safer permissions, but has
side effects. Check the bug database for more info.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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