[Distutils] easy_install install file permissions

P.J. Eby pje at telecommunity.com
Sun Aug 1 19:07:25 CEST 2010


At 10:27 AM 8/1/2010 -0400, Eric Schug wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I was having problem getting installed egg files to work until I 
>realized that they had the wrong permissions set.  It seems that on 
>my machine easy_install is installing files with permissions set to 
>-rw-r-----.  How do I change this so that my files are installed 
>with og+r, automatically so that I don't have to go back and fix them?

That sounds like a problem with your umask.  Check your platform's 
docs for the umask command to find out how to see what it's set to 
and to change it.



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