On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 1:30 PM, green
<greenfreedom10@gmail.com> wrote:
For files that already exist, I would use
u=rwX,g=rX,o=
I do not know how that translates to the number.
Note that will leave execution bits on non-directory files that already have
them for some user.
I use umask 0027 so that new files have permissions -rw-r-----.
In his original e-mail, Mr. Cohen is looking for permissions so that other users can not read or access his data. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that pretty much leaves us with mode 700, umask 077.