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Re: Unmask Problems - Hoary 5.01

Subject: Re: Unmask Problems - Hoary 5.01
From: Vram
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 11:14:36 -0800
On Mon, 2006-01-02 at 12:53 -0600, Bobby Sanders wrote:
> I want my default unmask to be 002 for all the users on my small office
> system.  I have tried changing it in /etc/login.defs, i.e I changed the
> line;
> 
> UNMASK        022
> 
> to
> 
> UNMASK        002
> 
> rebooted, created a new file and the permissions were still -rw-r--r--
> 
> What am I missing?  I know this has worked on other *nixs in the
> past!  :(
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Bobby Sanders
> 


try umask

HTH


Vram




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