Re: Tramp: changing umask?

[Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>]

egarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:

> On 08/06/16 21:37, egarrulo wrote:
>> On 08/06/16 17:20, Barry Margolin wrote:
>>> In article <drq6pqFb3dsU1@mid.individual.net>,
>>>   egarrulo <egarrulo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> When I create a file with C-x C-f (ido-find-file) in Tramp, Tramp
>>>> creates the file with 0664 permissions instead of 0644 permissions.
>>>>
>>>> Here is the relevant configuration:
>>>>
>>>> (setq tramp-default-user "myuser")
>>>> (require 'tramp)
>>>>
>>>> How can I make Tramp create new files with 0644 permissions?  Thanks.
>>>
>>> It sounds like the target user's umask is different from your umask.
>>
>> Thanks for your suggestion.  Indeed the user's umask is 0002, which
>> explains
>> the 0664 permissions.  Can I change the umask from Tramp before
>> creating/saving files?
>
> I have tried to connect with SSH, running the command:
>
> umask 0022
>
> then disconnecting and connecting again, but umask was 0002 again.

That's correct: umask is set for a shell session through an init file
(.bash_profile, /etc/profile or similar) and it persists only for that
session. I don't know if there is a tramp way of doing it, but you
can certainly do what you want by adding

umask 022

to the shell initialization file of the user on the remote host.

--
Nick