Unmask Problems - Hoary 5.01
Vram
lamsokvr at xprt.net
Mon Jan 2 19:14:36 UTC 2006
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 12:53 -0600, Bobby Sanders wrote:
> I want my default unmask to be 002 for all the users on my small office
> system. I have tried changing it in /etc/login.defs, i.e I changed the
> line;
>
> UNMASK 022
>
> to
>
> UNMASK 002
>
> rebooted, created a new file and the permissions were still -rw-r--r--
>
> What am I missing? I know this has worked on other *nixs in the
> past! :(
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bobby Sanders
>
try umask
HTH
Vram
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