how to change default permissions assingment creating folder/files

[Mario Vukelic]

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 01:33 +0000, Vitorio Okio wrote:
> I would like to change this default behaviour and have permissions of a 
> new folder being set to 750 and of a new file to 640 instead.
> 
> Anyone can suggest how to do it?

You need the set the umask variable, see
http://ubuntudemon.wordpress.com/2007/10/24/default-umask/