You're in a busy office or share your house or apartment with others. You log into your Linux PC as the root user because you have a ton of admin tasks to do. In the middle of doing whatever it is you ...

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On Linux, the umask defines how new files and directories inherit access rights. Linux uses your current umask value to determine which permissions to mask (remove) from the base permission. The umask ...

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