diff --git a/CONTRIBUTORS b/CONTRIBUTORS
index 3b5581dd..7f222839 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -817,6 +817,8 @@ Andreas Brachold <vdr04@deltab.de>
  for generating file dependencies
  for suggesting that the 'plugins-clean' target of the Makefile should only delete
  the actual plugin library files from this version of VDR
+ for making files and directories created with rights according to the shell's
+ umask settings
 
 Manuel Hartl <icecep@gmx.net>
  for suggesting to extend the logging info when starting/stopping timers
diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 07e78a14..600b83c4 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -3634,7 +3634,7 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
   replaced with the new one instead of adding the new entries (thanks to Andreas
   Regel).
 
-2005-07-31: Version 1.3.28
+2005-08-06: Version 1.3.28
 
 - Added a sleep in cDvbPlayer::Action() in case there is no data to send to the
   device, which avoids a busy loop on very fast machines (thanks to Martin Wache).
@@ -3653,3 +3653,5 @@ Video Disk Recorder Revision History
 - Now checking whether timers or channels are currently being edited via the menu
   before making changes through SVDRP (thanks to Andreas Brugger for reporting a
   problem with this).
+- Files and directories are now created with rights according to the shell's
+  umask settings (thanks to Andreas Brachold).
diff --git a/recording.c b/recording.c
index 462b1600..081f9e61 100644
--- a/recording.c
+++ b/recording.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: recording.c 1.109 2005/06/05 14:11:45 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: recording.c 1.110 2005/08/06 09:53:21 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "recording.h"
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ int cResumeFile::Read(void)
 bool cResumeFile::Save(int Index)
 {
   if (fileName) {
-     int f = open(fileName, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
+     int f = open(fileName, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC, DEFFILEMODE);
      if (f >= 0) {
         if (safe_write(f, &Index, sizeof(Index)) < 0)
            LOG_ERROR_STR(fileName);
@@ -974,7 +974,7 @@ cIndexFile::cIndexFile(const char *FileName, bool Record)
         else if (!Record)
            isyslog("missing index file %s", fileName);
         if (Record) {
-           if ((f = open(fileName, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_APPEND, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH)) >= 0) {
+           if ((f = open(fileName, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_APPEND, DEFFILEMODE)) >= 0) {
               if (delta) {
                  esyslog("ERROR: padding index file with %d '0' bytes", delta);
                  while (delta--)
diff --git a/tools.c b/tools.c
index 55612165..ca4b0b80 100644
--- a/tools.c
+++ b/tools.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: tools.c 1.95 2005/05/29 10:18:26 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: tools.c 1.96 2005/08/06 09:53:21 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "tools.h"
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ bool MakeDirs(const char *FileName, bool IsDirectory)
         struct stat fs;
         if (stat(s, &fs) != 0 || !S_ISDIR(fs.st_mode)) {
            dsyslog("creating directory %s", s);
-           if (mkdir(s, S_IRWXU | S_IRGRP | S_IXGRP | S_IROTH | S_IXOTH) == -1) {
+           if (mkdir(s, ACCESSPERMS) == -1) {
               LOG_ERROR_STR(s);
               result = false;
               break;
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ bool SpinUpDisk(const char *FileName)
       if (access(buf, F_OK) != 0) { // the file does not exist
          timeval tp1, tp2;
          gettimeofday(&tp1, NULL);
-         int f = open(buf, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
+         int f = open(buf, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, DEFFILEMODE);
          // O_SYNC doesn't work on all file systems
          if (f >= 0) {
             if (fdatasync(f) < 0)
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ bool cLockFile::Lock(int WaitSeconds)
   if (f < 0 && fileName) {
      time_t Timeout = time(NULL) + WaitSeconds;
      do {
-        f = open(fileName, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
+        f = open(fileName, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_EXCL, DEFFILEMODE);
         if (f < 0) {
            if (errno == EEXIST) {
               struct stat fs;
diff --git a/tools.h b/tools.h
index 079e58d0..0644f4e6 100644
--- a/tools.h
+++ b/tools.h
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: tools.h 1.72 2005/05/29 10:24:54 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: tools.h 1.73 2005/08/06 09:53:21 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #ifndef __TOOLS_H
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ public:
   cFile(void);
   ~cFile();
   operator int () { return f; }
-  bool Open(const char *FileName, int Flags, mode_t Mode = S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP);
+  bool Open(const char *FileName, int Flags, mode_t Mode = DEFFILEMODE);
   bool Open(int FileDes);
   void Close(void);
   bool IsOpen(void) { return f >= 0; }
diff --git a/videodir.c b/videodir.c
index f0e54fe7..cb3d29a8 100644
--- a/videodir.c
+++ b/videodir.c
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
  * See the main source file 'vdr.c' for copyright information and
  * how to reach the author.
  *
- * $Id: videodir.c 1.11 2004/12/26 11:52:12 kls Exp $
+ * $Id: videodir.c 1.12 2005/08/06 09:53:21 kls Exp $
  */
 
 #include "videodir.h"
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ int OpenVideoFile(const char *FileName, int Flags)
            }
         }
      }
-  int Result = open(ActualFileName, Flags, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH);
+  int Result = open(ActualFileName, Flags, DEFFILEMODE);
   if (ActualFileName != FileName)
      free((char *)ActualFileName);
   return Result;