diff --git a/html-gen.sh b/html-gen.sh
index 2d1ba6b..ddf08c2 100644
--- a/html-gen.sh
+++ b/html-gen.sh
@@ -363,6 +363,7 @@ done
 
 if [ $modification -gt 0 ]; then
   temp=`mktemp fugitiveXXXXXX`
+  chmod a+r "$temp"
   echo -n "[fugitive] Generating $public_dir/archives.html... "
   cat "$templates_dir/archives.html" | \
     replace_includes | \
@@ -394,7 +395,6 @@ if [ $modification -gt 0 ]; then
   echo -n "[fugitive] Using last published article as index page... "
   cp "$public_dir/`head -1 $articles_sorted`.html" "$public_dir/index.html"
   echo "done".
-  chmod 644 _public/*.html _public/*.xml
   echo "[fugitive] Blog update complete."
 fi
 rm "$articles_sorted"