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I use the configuration to store auto-save files in /tmp:
(setq backup-directory-alist
`((".*" . ,temporary-file-directory)))
(setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
`((".*" ,temporary-file-directory t)))
Emacs seems to create the auto-save-files with the actual permissions of the file changed. I would like to change the umask for auto-save files to 700. How to configure this?
Put this in init.el to configure the default permissions of all newly created files:
(set-default-file-modes ?\700)
To apply this only to auto-save files I think you could use around advice on make-auto-save-file-name combined with default-file-modes to first store old default permissions, then set new ones, then run the advised function, and finally reset the old default permissions.
