umask doesn't seem to be respected for the devcontainer process/instance

[dss010101]

Is there an existing issue for this bug?

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Required Troubleshooting Steps

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Connect Locally

It connects successfully

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Im running an amazon al2023 image in a remote devcontainer. I have the following in the Dockerfile with hopes that files created within the container on mounted shares are read writeable by the dev team members.

    && echo "umask 0000" >> /home/$USER_NAME/.bashrc \
    && chown -R $USER_NAME /home/$USER_NAME
....
....
RUN mkdir -p $DATA_HOME
RUN chown -R $USER_NAME $DATA_HOME
RUN chmod -R g+rwx $DATA_HOME
RUN setfacl -Rdm g::rwx $DATA_HOME

$DATA_HOME above will be a mounted volume.

Within the VSCode's devcontainer, if i open a terminal and touch a file on the share, the permissions are fine - they are read writeable by the group. However, if i use visual studio code to create a file (File->New File), the file is r/w by only me. I was looking through the devcontainer build/start logs and noticed the following:

Start: Run in container: cat '/home/xxxxx/.vscode-server-insiders/data/Machine/.connection-token-8bac42dd1ec2bb223e847a16437b196c040680e5-insider' 2>/dev/null || (**umask 377** && echo 'd4e6cea0-208e-4030-ad16-cd4b3fcb4a42' >

Not sure if that is the mask that is used for the devcontainer process/instance...but if it is, how would i change that to 0002?
Or is there another solution for solving this issue?

It is quite a productivity problem when we constantly have to reach out to team members of admins to change file permissions

Thanks much

Expected Behavior

To be able to set umask at the devcontainer process level such that creation of files are group read/writeable on volumes shared by other members.

Steps To Reproduce

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Remote-SSH Log

Remote-SSH Log

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Anything else?

Opening here as per request frrom devcontainer github here: https://github.com/orgs/devcontainers/discussions/73

[paroj]

the underlying issue is likely #9165

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