Phil Savoie:
> This value can be overridden by an entry in the users profile files by
> either the user or the root user depending on your situation. The umask
> value can be determined by typing umask at the prompt and changed by
> typing umask <new_value> at the prompt as well.
A nice flag to umask is -S, making it more readable for the average user
that has just rlearnt to use chmod (not that the average user knows that,
but I rather mean the average knowledge of those knowing chmod. Never
mind.)
umask -S u=rwx,g=rwx,o=rx
will do the same as the somewhat more cryptical
umask 002
and 'umask -S' will show the current mask.
(I don't know if this works for all versions of umask, but at least on
most Linuxes.)
Magni :)
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sash is very good for you.
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