diff --git a/html-gen.sh b/html-gen.sh
index ddf08c2..6974d80 100644
--- a/html-gen.sh
+++ b/html-gen.sh
@@ -289,6 +289,7 @@ replace_foreach () {
 
 generate_article() {
   temp=`mktemp fugitiveXXXXXX`
+  chmod a+r "$temp"
   art="${1#$articles_dir/}"
   title=`get_article_title "$art"`
   cat "$templates_dir/article.html" | \