What is UMASK?
Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2015 9:48 pm
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.