topic Re: Default settings in Operating System - HP-UX

Default settings

Chakravarthi — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 07:19:17 GMT

Hi all,

How do i overwrite user settings with system settings.

for example, i want to set umask is automatically set to 022 , even if the ower sets different umask,

regards
chakri

Re: Default settings

Chakravarthi — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 07:20:15 GMT

correction system settings should overwrite user settings

Re: Default settings

Ravi_8 — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 07:40:58 GMT

Hi,

Entering in /etc/profile file must overwrite the users settings.

Re: Default settings

Jean-Louis Phelix — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 08:12:51 GMT

hi,

You can't ... Login process first uses /etc/profile THEN user's settings. So, if you user sets umask in .profile, you can't change it back. You could only prevent them from using a .profile, but it's not no easy ...

Regards.

Re: Default settings

Chuck J — Mon, 25 Nov 2002 09:38:28 GMT

Please sort this out:

country: ITALY
personal quote:
certification:
ITRC member since: July 31, 2002
last contribution date: November 25, 2002
This member has assigned points to 24 of 80 responses to his/her questions.

And assign points to people who also tried to help even if they didn't.

Chuck J