Unable to set umask for a user! - HELP!

[Pim Bliek]

Whenever I create new user (using SAM) this user is unable to set the umask properly. Every user on the system has the wrong umask, and I'm unable to set it.

My situation:
- HPUX 11.0
- umask 644 in .profile of all users
- but every file I create has permissions -----w--w- (022)
- also in /etc/skel/.profile the umask is 644.

I use ksh as default shell.

Anyone any idea what I'm doing wrong??

Regards,
Pim Bliek

[Deepak Extross · Accepted solution]

Do you want the files to be created with permissions 644?
In that case, set the umask to 022 in the user's .profile.

From the man page:
"For example, the mask u=rwx,g=rx,o=rx ( 022 ) disables group and other
write permissions. As a result, files normally created with a file mode shown by the ls -l command as -rwxrwxrwx ( 777 ) become mode -rwxr-xr-x ( 755 ); while files created with file mode -rw-rw-rw- ( 666 become mode -rw-r--r-- ( 644 )."

[Frederic Sevestre]

Hi,
I think you want to have files with 644 permissions. So you should use umask=022
See man umask.
Fr??d??ric

[Manoj Kumar Sarangi]

What is happenning is correct.
As a thumb rule

if you have a umask 644
1. for file permission deduct from 666
i.e in your case 022
-----w--w- (022)
2. for directory permission deduct from 777
i.e; in yourcase 133
d--x-wx-wx (133)

so if you create a directory it will have
d--x-wx-wx (133)

and file will have
-----w--w- (022)
permission

Manoj