On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 03:42:41PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > IMHO, it should be possible to specify a global setting that works > with ALL shells. Otherwise, the system administrator has to modify > each shell individually.
But as long as we don't have a uniform solution ... /etc% grep -i umask * 2>/dev/null csh.login:umask 022 login.defs:# Enable setting of ulimit, umask, and niceness from passwd gecos field. login.defs:# UMASK Default "umask" value. login.defs:UMASK 022 profile:umask 002 zprofile:umask 002 This is on an almost up-to-date frozen system. Should I file bugs? On which packages? There is nothing in policy on this. Should there be? Andrew Please cc: -policy postings to me. -- "Finally, nongeeks will get to use something that geeks take for granted: software that works right." - Michael Fulbright, on Linux and the GNOME project
