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Re: setting umask globally



also sprach Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> [2005.06.17.0033 +0200]:
> There is already an umask setting in /etc/login.defs. If it makes people
> happy, I will happily drop the umask setting from /etc/profile, so
> that people do not have to decide between login.defs and profile
> when trying to set an umask globally.

/etc/login.defs is only read for console logins, not for e.g. SSH
logins.

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