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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