Hello, 1. All my folders are saving as 0775 by default, whereas they should be 0755 right? Similarly, all my PHP files save as 0664 by default, instead of 0644. How do I correct this problem? 2. Another thing is that:- My folder structure is like this: /home/username/public_html /home/ is owned by root and is chmod 0755 /username/ is owned by username and is chmod 0755 /public_html/ is owned by username and is chmod 0755 Are these permissions good? I mean are they secure enough? Thanks
I am using just SFTP, and WinSCP as my SFTP client. I also tried creating a new php file from SSH while logged in as "username". It is giving 0664 to php files by default, instead of 0644. What should i do? Thanks
okay.. I found one thing. I notice that when I upload files from "username", only then 0664 and 0775 permissions are being given. However, this is not happening with "root". The file/folder permissions are correct if uploaded from root account. What should I do to make "username" upload files/folders as 0644 and 0755? And why did this happen when I simply created user like useradd username , it should have inherited default permissions, right? Thanks
OKAY.. I solved this problem after some crazy googling. I am sure someone setting up servers from scratch can face this problem too, so here's the solution. 1. Connect to SSH as username. 2. Edit the bashrc file: Code: vi .bashrc //this file resides in /home/username folder 3. Add the following at the end of the file: Code: umask 022 Save and close the file. Changes will take effect after next login. Thats it! Problem Description:- - The default umask 002 is used for normal user. With this mask, default directory permissions are 775 and default file permissions are 664. (This was the problem in my case) - The default umask for the root user is 022. With this mask, default directory permissions are 755 and default file permissions are 644. (Which I want for my username too) - For directories, the base permissions are (rwxrwxrwx) 0777 and for files they are 0666 (rw-rw-rw). To calculate directory permission for 022: Default Permissions: 777 Subtract umask value: 022 (-) Allowed Permissions: 755 To calculate file permission for 022: Default Permissions: 666 Subtract umask value: 022 (-) Allowed Permissions: 644 Thanks