how to set the umask value for a user

[praveen..]

Hi,
i need to set the umask value 022 for a local user,

how to do it,
user name is oracle.

please suggest,

what does 022 means?

[Sivakumar TS · Accepted solution]

Hi Praveen,

You may add the umask entry in the profile of the user. It basically sets the mask applied to newly created file and directory permissions

Regards,

Siva

[Ninad_1]

In user oracle's .profile add the line umask 022 at the end.

022 means any new file created will have permissions -rw-r--r--
and any new dir created will have drwxr-xr-x

Regards,
Ninad

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Praveen,

You need to set this up in his .profile. You can find this file in $HOME dir. Just add
umask=022

-Arun

[Ludovic Derlyn]

hi,

for set umask , need to define in .profile of user

022 correspond to 755

Regards

[Raj D.]

Hi Praveen,

You can include that in .profile in that user ,

example:
# cd ~username
# cat .profile >> umask=022

that will set the user umask to 022


Cheers,
Raj.

[Raj D.]

Hi Praveen,

You can include that in .profile in that user ,

example:
# cd ~username
# echo " umask 022 " >> .profile

(Mistake in last post ,)

that will set the user umask to 022


Cheers,
Raj.

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Praveen,

Take a look at this, http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/submitted/umask_permissions.html

-Arun

[praveen..]

i have put "umask 022" in .profile of user

thanks everybody :-)