Date: 2006-01-16 11:11:43 +0100
From: @MarcinZukowski
To: GDK devs <>
Version: -- development

Last updated: 2019-04-30 12:36:00 +0200

Comment 13459

Date: 2006-01-16 11:11:43 +0100
From: @MarcinZukowski

It would be nice to be able to specify that all
MonetDB-created files and directories have a given
mask, e.g. 664/775.
This is useful e.g. when multiple people from the same
group want to work on the same database with MonetDB.

Comment 13460

Date: 2006-01-16 11:18:21 +0100
From: @grobian

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How about setting the umask before starting the Mserver process?

I think allowing this is potentially dangerous, so it should
not be facilitated in any way...

Comment 13461

Date: 2006-01-16 11:22:58 +0100
From: @MarcinZukowski

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umask doesn't work.
There are places in GDK when 755 is hardcoded.

Comment 13462

Date: 2006-01-17 14:25:35 +0100
From: @MarcinZukowski

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One more comment.
Maybe I do something wrong, but umask also doesn't influence
file creation.

umask 0002
Mserver --dbfarm=$PWD --dbname=tmp
ls -l tmp/bat/BACKUP

I get
-rw-r--r-- 1 marcin ins 54 Jan 17 14:23 BBP.dir

I think possibility to specify umask for files/dir in
MonetDB could also be used to protect one's data, e.g. by
running Mserver --umask=077

Comment 13463

Date: 2006-01-17 14:37:09 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

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You cannot get more permissions through the use of umask.
Umask only removes permissions.

Comment 13464

Date: 2010-05-04 09:32:09 +0200
From: Pseudo user for Sourceforge import <>

This bug was previously known as tracker item 1407204 at http://sourceforge.net/support/tracker.php?aid=1407204

The original assignee of this bug does not have
an account here. Reassigning to the default assignee
for the component, bugs-common@monetdb.org.
Previous assignee was nobody@users.sourceforge.net.

Comment 26817

Date: 2019-01-21 15:09:43 +0100
From: MonetDB Mercurial Repository <>

Changeset 8b97f691d862 made by Sjoerd Mullender sjoerd@acm.org in the MonetDB repo, refers to this bug.

For complete details, see https//devmonetdborg/hg/MonetDB?cmd=changeset;node=8b97f691d862

Changeset description:

Trust user's umask setting to protect created files/directories.
Note that monetdbd set umask to 077 (i.e. only access by owner).
This fixes bug #2416.

Comment 26818

Date: 2019-01-21 15:10:38 +0100
From: @sjoerdmullender

monetdbd set umask to 077, but otherwise the user's umask is used to protect files and directories.