 and the default level if this option isn&#8217;t specified.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
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<h2 id="_configuration">CONFIGURATION</h2>
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<dt class="hdlist1">tar.umask</dt>
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<p>This variable can be used to restrict the permission bits of
tar archive entries.  The default is 0002, which turns off the
world write bit.  The special value "user" indicates that the
archiving user&#8217;s umask will be used instead.  See umask(2)