On Sun, 20 Aug 2000, Gary Nielson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to make a system-wide change so that every user when creating a
> file will have it set to rw-rw----. So the umask setting would be 007. I
> understand that by changing the setting in /etc/profile, it will go into
> effect system wide for all current and new users. Is that right? Does this
> have the same effect as adding "umask 007" to each user's .bashrc file. Or
> if changing it for an individual user, should it be the .bash_profile
> file? Finally, when changing /etc/profile, I do not understand what the
> following means:
>
> if [ `id -gn` = `id -un` -a `id -u` -gt 14 ]; then
> umask 002
> else
> umask 022
> fi
>
> Since all files are now created on my system with a umask level of 002, I
> am *assuming* that I would make the change to 002 in the above if/else
> statement, but I am not sure what the above does, so I don't want to
> change it without first understanding it.
1) setting a umask in /etc/profile doesn't prevent users from
setting it to some other value in their own .bash_profile
2) technically, files are created with a starting permission of
rw-rw-rw-, or 666. so your umask need only take out the final
two permissions, as in "umask 006".
rday
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