[KLUG Members] A [simple?] question

[Brandon Rasler]

Robert G. Brown wrote:

>On UNIX systems generally, what determines the permission settings for 
>a file that is newly created by a program?
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I would say it depends on who is running said program.

[brandon@sql ~]$ touch hmm
[brandon@sql ~]$ ls -al hmm
-rw-rw-r--    1 brandon  brandon         0 May 14 09:02 hmm

[root@sql brandon]# touch hmm1
[root@sql brandon]# ls -al hmm1
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 May 14 09:03 hmm1


Maybe this is too simple an answer?
Brandon