change default UMASK on trusted system ?

[Andrew_4]

Just a quicky...

How do I go about changing the default umask on a trusted system ??

Will give points..

Andrew

[Philip Chan_1 · Accepted solution]

Just append the following codes into your /etc/profile file.

if [ "$WHO" = "root" ]
then
umask 077
else
umask 027
fi


That will do.

Rgds,
Philip

[Philip Chan_1]

Oaks... lefted one line in my previous message.

export WHO=`whoami`

So the whole thing should look like

export WHO=`whoami`
if [ "$WHO" = "root" ]
then
umask 077
else
umask 027
fi


~Philip

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

Change in $HOME/.profile the value of umask.