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Question to *nix permissions
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No. They're created based on 'umask' and changing directory permissions doesn't automatically change permissions on underlying files (unless you set privileges recursively) nor new files in the directory.
For new files set your umask on what you want. By default it's usually either 0002 or 0022. For existing files you can use find:
find ~ -type f -exec echo chmod a-x {} \;(remove echo once you've confirmed that it does what you want).