Hi Bill
just pasted your work here to CLI and works OK on SL 6.7 and SL 7.2 here...
It has to be something else .. umask? or inherited from directory higher up?
Maybe strace would help to see whats happening exactly?

cheers

On 11/06/2016 03:58 AM, Bill Maidment wrote:
> Hi
> I am trying to set up ACL on a directory such that any new file created in the directory has permissions of 0660.
> However, when I create a new file, the permissions are set as 0664 (see test.txt file below)
> Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?
>
> These are the commands I used:
>
> chmod -R u+rwX,g+rwXs,o-rwx /pictures
>
> setfacl -d -m u::rwx,g::rwx,o::--- /pictures
>
> getfacl /pictures
> getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names
> # file: pictures
> # owner: nfs01
> # group: nfs01
> # flags: -s-
> user::rwx
> group::rwx
> other::---
> default:user::rwx
> default:group::rwx
> default:other::---
>
> ls -latrh /pictures
> total 4.0K
> dr-xr-xr-x. 22 root  root  4.0K Nov  6 12:41 ..
> drwxrws---+  2 nfs01 nfs01   21 Nov  6 13:10 Testing
> -rw-rw-r--   1 nfs01 nfs01    0 Nov  6 13:44 test.txt
> drwxrws---+  3 nfs01 nfs01   35 Nov  6 13:44 .
>
> Cheers
> Bill Maidment
>