topic Re: umask in Operating System - HP-UX

umask

Indrajit_1 — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 18:54:04 GMT

Hi;

how do i set umask to 022 for independent user without changing it to /etc/default/login file. i have chage it to $HOME/.login file, but when i ssh to another machine, it takes default from the file /etc/default/login. How do i resolve this issue?

What if i change umask to 022 in /etc/default/login ?? will it effect the existing setting?? Help me..

Cheers
Indrajit

Re: umask

Patrick Wallek — Thu, 02 Feb 2006 19:37:48 GMT

You have to change the umask for this user on EACH machine the user may login to. Setting the umask on one machine has no effect on another machine.

Re: umask

Muthukumar_5 — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:01:54 GMT

We can not change default setting of umask to 022. IT has to be done with profile settings with /etc/profile or $HOME/.profile file only.

If you want to have that setting just add one line of,

umask 022

in /etc/profile which will give that setting to all users in that machine.

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Muthu

Re: umask

Frank de Vries — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:40:52 GMT

Umask can be set at at 3 levels
globally, user and script
Globally in the /etc/default/login or /etc/profileand can subsequently be set on user level in its /home/user/.profile
or you can script the umask command in
the beginning of a shell script , so it
is only valid for that script session.

Re: umask

Frank de Vries — Fri, 03 Feb 2006 02:41:14 GMT

Umask can be set at at 3 levels
globally, user and script
Globally in the /etc/default/login or /etc/profile and can subsequently be set on user level in its /home/user/.profile
or you can script the umask command in
the beginning of a shell script , so it
is only valid for that script session.

Re: umask

Indrajit_1 — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 08:09:54 GMT

Hi;

i have tried with chaning $HOME/.profile, but it doesn't work.

When i user login in one machine to another through ssh, if he type umash in command prompt (i.e #umask), it shows 027. i wanted to set umask for independent user, not globally.

Cheers
Indrajit

Re: umask

DCE — Sat, 04 Feb 2006 10:27:56 GMT

When you changed the umask in $HOME/.profile for the user did you remember to export it as well?

Re: umask

Indrajit_1 — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 10:48:01 GMT

Hi All;

Let me find, if there is some other issue...

Thanks for ur support..

Cheers
Indrajit