setting a umask

[John L Fjellstad]

"Serg B." <sergicles at gmail.com> writes:

> How can make it so a default home directory permission (when account is
> created) is set to something like 0700  without the need to change it
> manually? What file do I need to edit etc?

/etc/adduser.conf

> Also while on the topic, is there a setting that I need to edit to apply
> default permissions to files and directories that are being created.

Probably /etc/profile

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