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Glen Grant
07-03-02, 21:07
When I create a table from within Informix the *.dat and *.idx files in the unix operating system are created with permissions of 660.
If I create files directly from unix the permissions are 777 as the umask is set to 000.
Where does informix control the setting of permisions and how can I alter this?
I don't want to run chmod over the files, I would like the Informix default to 666.
Thanks
:confused:
dananio
07-09-02, 14:19
Another user can delete , re-write or cat /dev/null to that file but in the point of database , another user can't read or write or do anything with data in that file before dba user (informix) doesn't grant yet
Roelwe
08-02-02, 08:55
You don't want to change the permissions. It's much saves if only the user informix controls it.
In the SE manual, they say that file-permissions must be 660.
Why do you want to change them?