By cloudnine
For the domains/sites running on my Ubuntu 14.04 server, I had added the Linux user accounts to the www-data group. The document root (public_html) of the individual Linux user accounts that correspond to each web site are chowned to user:user.
Now, when directories or files are created through SFTP or shell, they have 775 and 664 values. Is there a way to set the umask server-wide so that all directories have 755 as default and all files have 644 as the default?
Thanks in advance.
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To set the system wide default umask for all user you need to make the below configuration in your server.you need to add the below configuration in /etc/profile to have newly created directory having 755 and file having 644 permission.
umask 0022
Noe logoff the session and check the newly setup umask using usmak command.
Note:Note that users may still override umask in their own ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc or similar, but (at least on new Debian and Ubuntu installations) there shouldn’t be any overriding of umask in /etc/profile or /etc/bash.bashrc. (If there are, just remove them.)
Hope it will help you.
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