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what exactly UMASK in sap basis?????

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Dear Experts,

         I want to know exactly about UMASK please can anybody help me.......

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UMASK (User Mask or User file creation MASK) is the default permission or base permissions given when a new file (even folder too, as Linux treats everything as files) is created on a Linux machine. Most of the Linux distros give 022 (0022) as default UMASK. In other words, it is a system default permissions for newly created files/folders in the machine.

Though umask value is the same for files and folders, but calculation of File base permissions and Directory base permissions are different.

The minimum and maximum UMASK value for a folder is 000 and 777

The minimum and maximum UMASK value for a file is 000 and 666

Below are the permissions and its values used by UMASK. If you are a Linux/Unix user you will observe these are inverse to actual permissions values when setting up permissions to files/folders with CHMOD command.

0 –Full permissions (Read, Write, Execute)
1 –Write and read
2 –Read and execute
3 –Read only
4 –Write and execute
5 –Write only
6 –Execute onlyadminadmin
7 –No permissions

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