Unmask Problems - Hoary 5.01

[Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón]

Bobby Sanders wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 20:00 +0100, Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón wrote:
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>>Bobby Sanders wrote:
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>>>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;
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>>>UNMASK	022
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>>>to
>>>
>>>UNMASK	002  ...
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>>>
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>>umask 022 ??
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>If you are asking what umask 022 means, you might do:
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>$ man chmod
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>or look at 
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>http://linux.about.com/od/commands/l/blcmdl2_umask.htm
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>for one explanation
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>or look at
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>http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%2Bumask+%2Blinux&btnG=Search
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>for a whole list of articles on umask.
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>Thanks,
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>Bobby
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sorry, I just meant that you should type umask instead of unmask