On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 21:56:23 -0300, Jorge P. de Morais Neto wrote: > > Do you have a separate filesystem for /home? If so, the simplest > > option is to set umask in its mount options in fstab. This will > > affect all users, except root, and it won't affect files you write > > outside of $HOME. > > That is not documented in the mount manpage as a filesystem-independet > option; it only shows for specific filesystems, none of which I use.
That's because it is not filesystem-independent. > Anyway, I use Btrfs and I have a separate subvolume for /home. I have > tried adding umask=077 (later umask=0077) as fstab option and invoking # > > # mount -o remount /home > > but in both cases it errored out: Because btrfs does not have that option. > mount: /home: mount point not mounted or bad option. > dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system > call. > > dmesg says: > > BTRFS error (device nvme0n1p7: state M): unrecognized mount option > 'umask=077' As it says. I think ACLs may be a better fit for your needs. -- Neil Bothwick Synonym: a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
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