6 hours ago, JorgeB said:

It can, but that is what the tool is supposed do:

 

 

We can always have the users run a command manually that would also change any read-only files to read/write if they want.

 

 

 

What does the tool do with files with this permission   -rw-r--r--?  If it sets the permissions as   -rw-rw-rw-   That should work for 99.9% of the cases I have seen occur. 

1 hour ago, Frank1940 said:

What does the tool do with files with this permission   -rw-r--r--?  If it sets the permissions as   -rw-rw-rw- 

For a file with -rw-r--r-- it does set it to -rw-rw-rw-

 

Verified that the New Permissions Tool does leave files with -r--r--r--  (444) permissions alone and files with -rw-r--r-- (644),  and -rw-r----- (640) and -rw------- (600)  permissions are converted to -rw-rw-rw- (666).  Note that I didn't test any other combinations as I haven't seen any others come up.  (Sorry, @JorgeB, I apologize as I was just a bit lazy earlier this morning and I should have tested it myself before posting.)

Edited September 24, 20241 yr by Frank1940