666 permission even after making umask= 0000

Question

I made my umask = 0000. However when I am creating a file it has 666 permission. Although directories get 777 , that's alright.

Also my aim is to create file/dir with permissions 774, I guess umask for this will be 003?

Answer 1

Umask does not provide executable rights on files. So this is correct.

umask 0003 will create directories with permissions that equals 774. But for files you will have to set the executable premissions on your own. Umask does not serve that feature.

chmod 774 file