Make default file permission configurable

[angelacastaneda]

I prefer having my notes as 0600 instead of 0644 to make them inaccessible by other users. Currently, I just chmod go-r * every few days, but it'd be nice if denote could do this itself by exposing an option and using it when creating new notes.

[ZharMeny]

Emacs, like most other programs, respects umask, which you can use to set the permissions files are created with. Does that help?

[protesilaos]

From: Ángel Castañeda ***@***.***> Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2024 14:25:00 -0700 I prefer having my notes as `0600` instead of `0644` to make them inaccessible by other users. Currently, I just `chmod go-r *` every few days, but it'd be nice if denote could do this itself by exposing an option and using it when creating new notes.

Do you think we should have something like this handled by Denote? I cannot remember seeing it elsewhere and would rather not go down this path. Anyway, I am happy to include this in the manual. Here is a proof-of-concept: (defvar my-denote-permissions "600" "My preferred file permissions for Denote files.") (defun my-denote-change-file-permissions () "Change file permissions of the current file to `my-denote-permissions'." (interactive) (when (and buffer-file-name (denote-file-is-note-p buffer-file-name)) (shell-command (format "chmod %s %s" my-denote-permissions buffer-file-name)))) Call the command 'my-denote-change-file-permissions' to operate on the current file. If you want something more fully fledged that may prompt you for a file, use this instead: (defvar my-denote-permissions "600" "My preferred file permissions for Denote files.") (defun my-denote-change-file-permissions (file) "Change the FILE's permissions to `my-denote-permissions'. FILE is the `buffer-file-name' if it is a Denote file. Else prompt for FILE in the variable `denote-directory'." (interactive (list (if (and buffer-file-name (denote-file-is-note-p buffer-file-name)) buffer-file-name (denote-file-prompt nil "Change file permissions of FILE" :require-match)))) (if (file-exists-p file) (shell-command (format "chmod %s %s" my-denote-permissions file)) (error "`%s' is not a valid file name" file))) I personally prefer the second method. Note that you can also set up a hook for this, but it would then run the function too many times. Probably not worth it.

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