[tex-live] strange changing permissions

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Thu Mar 18 14:42:13 CET 2010


2010/3/18 Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com>:
>
>
> Victor Ivrii wrote:
>>
>> If I as "texlive" change reading permissions it goes back to normal.
>> If "texlive" runs updmap-sys then no such behavior. Also on comuters
>> where I run tlmgr as a root such behavior is not observed
>>
>> umask of all directories there is 77
>
> This is caused by the umask of the 'texlive' user, which is apparently
> set to 077. If this is a user just for texlive maintenance, I suggest
> changing its umask.
>
umask of such a user should be 022. It can be set in the profile or in .bashrc.

> Best wishes,
> Taco
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>
>



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