Umask and redhat

[Rick Stevens]

Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> Where do I go to change the default system umask?

It's in /etc/bashrc:

	if [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" -a `id -u` -gt 99 ]; then
	    umask 002
	else
	    umask 022
	fi

Meaning that users that are in their own group and have IDs over 99
(which is all the mortal users) get a umask of 002, system users get
022.

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