Support chmod in attributes about chezmoi HOT 5 CLOSED

Use the private_ attribute:

$ chezmoi chattr +private ~/.config ~/.local

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but that sets the default chmod of 755 / 644 I want to specify 750 / 640 so 2 things might be useful

1. being able to specify in the config what private mode chmod looks like. For example

priviate_chmod:
  file: 640
  directory: 750

2. Being able specific chmod per directory / file. For example

## Directory
$ chezmoi chattr +chmod 750 .config

##
$ chezmoi chattr +chmod 640 .config/tmux.conf

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Does the config option umask help with your request?

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@halostatue Wow not sure how I missed that, thanks

Iit helps greatly as if I set the umask to 027 all my files get the correct permission it rw-r----- . However chezmoi still sets the .local and .config directories to rwx------ (700) however I need 750 so my backup script use can read my files. As a result when I run cheqmoi diff I get the following:

diff --git a/.config b/.config
old mode 40750
new mode 40700
diff --git a/.local b/.local
old mode 40750
new mode 40700
diff --git a/.local/share b/.local/share
old mode 40750
new mode 40700
diff --git a/fix-perms.sh b/fix-perms.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c135c3939e4f36bc1c27b98224a26509fe659b3c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fix-perms.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+## Fixing permissions required for restic to backup
+chmod 750 ~/.config
+chmod 750 ~/.local
+chmod 750 ~/.local/share

Which is slightly annoying and would be great if that could be fixed.

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The current set of permission-related attributes work for almost everybody. Adding a new, complex, attribute which is not orthogonal to the existing attributes is too much complexity for too little gain. I would instead suggest modifying your backup script.

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