Re: help setting umask corrently

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 1:03 PM, Gregory Machin <gdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi.

I have a hack that sets the usmak for users in /etc/bashrc

umask -S u=rwx,g=rwx,o=r


A umask is back-to-front, so don't you want something like this in
/etc/skel/bash.profile
umask 077

That means, the user has full rwx, everyone else (including group) has nothing.

-c
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