No. The default umask for root is 0022.

# touch /tmp/a
# ls -l /tmp/a
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Jul 4 16:51 /tmp/a

As you can see, the file is readable for all users. But the database
files created by FB are not:

# ls -l
-rw------- 1 root root 2101248 Apr 20 13:24 mydb.fdb

Any idea?

Fabrice

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, "Nick" <nick@...> wrote:
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> Man umask
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> > [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> > Fabrice Aeschbacher
> > Sent: 04 July 2006 13:57
> > To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [firebird-support] db file access right
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> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > (FB 1.5 / linux)
> >
> > The default access rights for database files (*.fdb) are 0600
> > (read/write for root).
> >
> > For some raison, we want the db files to be created with
> > access mode = 0644.
> >
> > How can I do this?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Fabrice
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