Re: file permissions

[Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com>]

evaristegalois <evaristegalois@hotmail.com> writes:

> This is probably a simple problem but I can't find anything on it in the
> manual. 
>
> I have emacs version 21 on my ubuntu (linux) computer. Everytime I save a
> file in emacs it is saved with file permissions that allow me to read, write
> and execute the file, but nobody else. Then I upload the file on the net to
> use it on a different computer and can't access it because I am forbidden
> access because I am no longer ``myself'' on a different computer. Right now
> I change the file permissions by hand using the chmod command. 
>
> But for convenience I would like Emacs to save my files right away as files
> that can be read, written to or executed by anybody. How can I accomplish
> this?

Either you can set your global umask (in ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc),
or you can set only emacs' umask with:

(let ((r 4)(w 2)(x 1)(u 64)(g 8)(o 1))
  (set-default-file-modes  (+ (* u (+ r w x)) (* (+ g o) (+ r x)))))

in your ~/.emacs


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