umask

[Indrajit_1]

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

[Patrick Wallek]

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.

[Muthukumar_5]

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

[Frank de Vries]

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.

[Frank de Vries]

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.

[Indrajit_1]

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

[DCE]

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

[Indrajit_1]

Hi All;


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


Thanks for ur support..



Cheers
Indrajit