Thanks for the quick reply but . . I think I got even more confused. Haha . . inversed numbers and all that with the umask command. I read the man umask and searched the net for umask explanations and found some but confused the heck out of me. We tried some umask commands that seemed to work but still getting permission denied forbidden errors. Hmmmm
I'm really not certain where the disconnect is regarding umask operations. It's merely an exclusive OR operation.
In Unix all base permissions begin as the following;
Directories [ Octal 777 / Binary 111111111 ]
Files [ Octal 666 / Binary 110110110 ]
Apply your umask as exclusive OR to any file created;
Umask = 022 (let's just say)
Create a new file named new.txt (touch new.txt).
It should be set with the following perms (barring the use of acl's and the like);
666 ^ 022 = 644, or 110110110 ^ 000010010 = 110100100,
Net result; rw-r--r--