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Re: setting the umask globally



also sprach michael@etalon.net <michael@etalon.net> [2005.06.16.2310 +0200]:
> That should work.
> I just tried it and it worked.
> I edited /etc/profile, and then commented out the umask in ~/.bash_profile
> and then re-logged in via ssh. umask showed what was set in /etc/profile.

Yeah, dumb me was using zsh, which does not read /etc/profile.

Setting umask globally is a catastrophe. /etc/login.defs *should* be
the central location, but it's not used for SSH (obviously).

I am going to propose to have this situation rectified. :)

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