umask help

[Cameron Simpson]

On 18:24 24 Feb 2004, Kieran Hood <k_hood at ntlworld.com> wrote:
| I want to make it so that all new files created in users home directories 
| are only readable by the users who own them an their groups. Is umask the 
| best way to do this? Also where do I add the command so that it is 
| executed on startup? Thanks

Yes. Put this:

	umask 027

in the global start up, eg by making a file:

	/etc/profile.d/local.sh

and putting it in there.

The above umask will turn of group-write and other-everything.
This results in files with permissions 640 (rw-r-----) and dirs 750
(rwxr-x---) which sounds like what you want.

Cheers,
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