typo in that command In the last sentence of the second paragraph 'similarly created with rw only for my user.' should have said 'similarly created with rw only for root'
here's a simple test case $ umask 0077 $ touch /tmp/example1 $ sudo touch /tmp/example2 $ ls -l /tmp/example* -rw------- 1 username username 0 2009-07-16 11:39 /tmp/example1 -rw------- 1 root root 0 2009-07-16 11:39 /tmp/example2 for reference, the default umask on ubuntu is 0022, but is a fairly common action for people to customise this on multi-user machines -- add-apt-repository creates read-only sources.list https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399709 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
