On Sat, 31 Oct 2015, Georgios Zarkadas wrote: > Hi Yaroslav,
> This seems to be the effect of a restrictive umask (0077, > specifically) to user root, either through explicitly setting it at > your startup files, or through pam settings. > Dhelp code does not set permissions for the created files, rather > assumes the customary 0022 umask for user root. There is a *lot* of > code out there that does this assumption, so I would not consider this > a bug. > Although it is quite some time since the original report, if you could > confirm whether that was the case then it would be useful. confirming: - I do have umask 077 for my user - I do not set umask 077 explicitly anywhere for root, so if I just login in a terminal console, root's umask 022 - umask is restrictive (077) if I su or sudo into root: % umask 077 % su Password: root@xxx:/home/yoh# umask 0077 root@xxx:/home/yoh# exit % sudo -s [sudo] password for yoh: # umask 077 # % umask 022 % umask 022 % su Password: root@xxx:/home/yoh# umask 0022 hope this helps -- Yaroslav O. Halchenko Center for Open Neuroscience http://centerforopenneuroscience.org Dartmouth College, 419 Moore Hall, Hinman Box 6207, Hanover, NH 03755 Phone: +1 (603) 646-9834 Fax: +1 (603) 646-1419 WWW: http://www.linkedin.com/in/yarik
