CentOS - Oct 2014 - Wrong file permissions in CentOS 7

Sorry if this question has been asked many times before.

On a new CentOS 7 system, when I create files they end up with strange
permissions.  For example, as root:

[root at server ~]# umask
0000
[root at server ~]# touch a
[root at server ~]# ls -l a
-r--r----- 1 root root 0 Oct 10 11:45 a

As a regular user:

[stern at server ~]$ umask
0000
[stern at server ~]$ touch b
[stern at server ~]$ ls -l b
-rw------- 1 stern stern 0 Oct 10 11:47 b

In both cases the permsissions should have been -rw-rw-rw-.  What on
earth is going on, and how can I fix it?

Thanks,

Alan Stern

Change the umask in the .bash_profile for root.

On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Alan Stern <stern at
rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> Sorry if this question has been asked many times before.
>
> On a new CentOS 7 system, when I create files they end up with strange
> permissions.  For example, as root:
>
> [root at server ~]# umask
> 0000
> [root at server ~]# touch a
> [root at server ~]# ls -l a
> -r--r----- 1 root root 0 Oct 10 11:45 a
>
> As a regular user:
>
> [stern at server ~]$ umask
> 0000
> [stern at server ~]$ touch b
> [stern at server ~]$ ls -l b
> -rw------- 1 stern stern 0 Oct 10 11:47 b
>
> In both cases the permsissions should have been -rw-rw-rw-.  What on
> earth is going on, and how can I fix it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan Stern
>
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos


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Hal Wigoda
Chicago

On Fri, 10 Oct 2014, Alan Stern wrote:
> Sorry if this question has been asked many times before.
>
> On a new CentOS 7 system, when I create files they end up with strange
> permissions.  For example, as root:
>
> [root at server ~]# umask
> 0000
> [root at server ~]# touch a
> [root at server ~]# ls -l a
> -r--r----- 1 root root 0 Oct 10 11:45 a
>
> As a regular user:
>
> [stern at server ~]$ umask
> 0000
> [stern at server ~]$ touch b
> [stern at server ~]$ ls -l b
> -rw------- 1 stern stern 0 Oct 10 11:47 b
>
> In both cases the permsissions should have been -rw-rw-rw-.  What on
> earth is going on, and how can I fix it?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Alan Stern
>
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS at centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
>
I'm sure I don't have an answer, but the last time I saw something like 
that the problem was related to a fat or vfat file system (I believe). 
What type of filesystem is "/"?  What is the output from 'df
-Th' ?