diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index 5409e56309..f9f33f9c4a 100644
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -12438,3 +12438,11 @@ David  21 Dec 2007
         boinc_api.C
     sched/
         delete_file.C
+
+David  21 Dec 2007
+    - user web: when creating cache dir, chmod() so that
+        protections are right regardless of umask.
+        From Nicolas Alvarez; fixes #344
+
+    html/inc/
+        cache.inc
diff --git a/html/inc/cache.inc b/html/inc/cache.inc
index f431d511ef..1c55a8c8f9 100644
--- a/html/inc/cache.inc
+++ b/html/inc/cache.inc
@@ -11,11 +11,15 @@ if (function_exists("apache_request_headers")) {
 // mechanism for caching commonly-accessed pages
 
 function make_cache_dirs() {
-    if (!@filemtime("../cache")) mkdir("../cache", 0770);
+    if (!@filemtime("../cache")) {
+        mkdir("../cache", 0770);
+        chmod("../cache", 0770);
+    }
     for ($i=0;$i<256;$i++) {
         $j=sprintf("%02x",$i);
         if (!@filemtime("../cache/$j")) {
             mkdir("../cache/$j", 0770);
+            chmod("../cache/$j", 0770);
         } 
     }
 }