umask shows wrong when login using telnet and CDE

[Aungshuman Paul]

Hi,

My OS version is HPUX 11i v3. When I login using ssh its shows umask 0022. But when login using telnet it shows umask output is 00. And for CDE it shows 02.

Can anyone help regarding this ? Highly appreciate for earlier response.

Aungshu

[Dennis Handly]

What do you set umask to in your .profile?

[Aungshuman Paul]

In my profile 022 is set.

[Jeeshan]

what is the umask value set in /etc/profile and .profile?

[Dennis Handly]

>In my profile 022 is set.

Do you have any evidence that your .profile was executed with telnet?

For CDE you have to set a variable to get it to source your .profile:
http://forums.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1031244

[Bill Hassell]

The difference comes from the strange behavior of terminal emulators (xterm, dtterm and hpterm) where the default is to completely bypass /etc/profile, and .profile by defaulting to a dumb session rather than a login session). Although there is a halfway solution with DTSOURCEPROFILE=true, it cannot source /etc/profile like a normal long (telnet, rlogin, ssh, etc). You have to fix the emulators by setting loginShell=true like this:

echo "*loginShell=true" >> $HOME/.Xdefaults

Now the emulator will behave like standard logins.