Pi-hole: /etc/pihole/adlists.list permission problem

[DrGeoff]

In raising this issue, I confirm the following:

• [X] I have read and understood the contributors guide.
• [X] The issue I am reporting can be replicated.
• [X] The issue I am reporting isn't a duplicate (see FAQs, closed issues, and open issues).

How familiar are you with the the source code relevant to this issue?:
1

---

Expected behaviour:
The Pi-hole admin page should work

Actual behaviour:
Steps to reproduce:
Fresh install on Raspberry Pi with all the latest updates. Point a webbrowser at http:///admin/

Debug token provided by uploading pihole -d log:
Not provided

Troubleshooting undertaken, and/or other relevant information:
Looking in /var/log/lighttpd/error.log shows
(mod_fastcgi.c.2543) FastCGI-stderr: PHP Warning: file(/etc/pihole/adlists.list): failed to open stream: Permission denied in /var/www/html/pihole/index.php on line 120

The permissions on /etc/pihole/adlists.list are
$ sudo ls -al /etc/pihole/adlists.list
-rw------- 1 root root 381 Sep 15 17:42 /etc/pihole/adlists.list

[Mcat12]

Have you changed the default permissions for new files? On a new install, I see this:

-rw-r--r--. 1 root   root         381 Sep 15 21:05 adlists.list

[DrGeoff]

After much searching (including a complete system reinstall) I finally remembered to check my bashrc. And yes, there is a umask setting.

umask 0077

So the pi-hole install script is relying on a different umask? I see that the default umask is normally 0022. I'll manually set that and do the pi-hole install now.

[DrGeoff]

The following provided a successful install

$ sudo -s
# umask 0022
# curl -sSL https://install.pi-hole.net | bash