To make ikiwiki publish world-readable files (usually what you want) regardless of your umask, you override the `umask` setting to 022 octal (which is 18 in decimal). So far so good. However, because it's interpreted as a plain number in Perl, the way you set it varies between formats. In `IkiWiki::Setup::Standard` you can use either umask => 022 or (less obviously) one of umask => 18 umask => "18" but if you use umask => "022" you get the less than helpful umask of 026 octal (22 decimal). Similarly, in `IkiWiki::Setup::Yaml` (the default for [ikiwiki-hosting](http://ikiwiki-hosting.branchable.com/) you have to use one of umask: 18 umask: "18" and if you try to say 022 you'll get 22 decimal = 026 octal. [[!tag patch]] [[!template id=gitbranch branch=smcv/umask-keywords author="[[smcv]]"]] Perhaps the best way to solve this would be to have keywords for the few values of `umask` that are actually useful? * `private` (= 077 octal = 63 decimal) * `group` (= 027 octal = 23 decimal) * `public` (= 022 octal = 18 decimal) I don't think g+w is a good idea in any case, because as documented on [[security]], if ikiwiki makes its `srcdir` group-writeable then any member of the group can "cause trouble" (escalate privileges to those of the wiki user?) via a symlink attack. So I don't think we need keywords for those. --[[smcv]] > I support this change, but your git repository does not seem to have > that branch (or anything) in it today. --[[Joey]] >> git pushes have a restrictive umask, ironically... fixed. --[[smcv]] >>> [[done]] --[[Joey]]