https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Default-Permission/m-p/1619#M524 sounds like a code node is required.<BR /> The following is based on the techniques we used in SAS6, so it probably still works. <BR /> To get the op.sys to mark the file permissions, the code node would capture the latest dataset from &amp;syslast, then determine the physical name and path,<BR /> then pipe to a datastep infile, the effect of command: <BR /> <BR /> chmod +{whatever} your.latest.dataset.sas7bdat<BR /> <BR /> <BR /> In SAS8 and SAS9, perhaps the chmod command can be executed through some other command handler like %sysexec.<BR /> <BR /> Good Luck<BR /> Peter Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:03:20 GMT deleted_user 2006-10-26T12:03:20Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Default-Permission/m-p/1618#M523 I have noticed that when I create code or data in EG the default permissions are for owner and group to have read and write access. Our default on the UNIX server is RW-R-R. How can I change the default to allow only read access to group members using EG? Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:50:41 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Default-Permission/m-p/1618#M523 deleted_user 2006-10-24T12:50:41Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Default-Permission/m-p/1619#M524 sounds like a code node is required.<BR /> The following is based on the techniques we used in SAS6, so it probably still works. <BR /> To get the op.sys to mark the file permissions, the code node would capture the latest dataset from &amp;syslast, then determine the physical name and path,<BR /> then pipe to a datastep infile, the effect of command: <BR /> <BR /> chmod +{whatever} your.latest.dataset.sas7bdat<BR /> <BR /> <BR /> In SAS8 and SAS9, perhaps the chmod command can be executed through some other command handler like %sysexec.<BR /> <BR /> Good Luck<BR /> Peter Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:03:20 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Enterprise-Guide/Default-Permission/m-p/1619#M524 deleted_user 2006-10-26T12:03:20Z