### Please describe the problem. Not sure how I have missed this issue for a while, since now I have tried with almost year old 6.20170101-1+b1 -- the same story as with 6.20171003-g14ffdd779 I expect those files to be readable according to the 'shared' setting but definitely not writeable! ### Please provide any additional information below. [[!format sh """ $> sudo rm -rf tttt; mkdir tttt; ( cd tttt; git init --shared .; git annex init ; echo 123 >123; git annex add 123; git commit -m 'added 123'; ls -lL 123; ) Initialized empty shared Git repository in /tmp/tttt/.git/ init ok (recording state in git...) add 123 ok (recording state in git...) [master (root-commit) b137ea6] added 123 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) create mode 120000 123 -rw-rw---- 1 yoh yoh 4 Oct 10 12:59 123 $> echo 11 >> tttt/123 # no error code """]] FWIW my umask is 077 but originally discovered on a system with umask 0002 I guess I need to annex fsck tons of repositories now :-/ [[!meta author=yoh]]