[[!comment format=mdwn username="http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/" nickname="smcv" subject="your shell has a restrictive umask" date="2011-11-27T13:24:57Z" content=""" Your shell login to the server (presumably SSH?) is running under a restrictive `umask`, and by default ikiwiki doesn't overrule that. For instance, perhaps you're using the `pam_umask` module, or perhaps your `.bashrc` sets a restrictive mask. This is generally a good thing for privacy from other users of a shared server, but counterproductive when you're publishing things! You can configure ikiwiki to set a less restrictive `umask` with the `umask` option in your setup file. 18 is probably a good value (18 decimal = 022 octal, and a `umask` of 022 octal corresponds to `chmod 0755`, because the `umask` is subtracted from 0777 octal to get the default permissions). """]]