Your default umask is 002. What does this mean?



Your default umask is 002. What does this mean?..

Answer / Kapil Kumar Vishnoi

The default umask of 002 means that when creating a new file, the owner (user) will have full read, write, and execute permissions (7), while group and others will have read and execute permissions only (5). So the resulting permission for newly created files would be -rw-r--r--.

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