rich lott wrote:
I have a similar experience with umask
in /etc/profile I have a line umask 0002 # to give owner and group rw access.
in /etc/login.defs I have the same (why capitals?) # UMASK Default "umask" value. UMASK 0002
and nothing in .bash_profile, but it still comes up 0022 when I check it with #umask
anyone help?
thanks rich
On Friday 16 July 2004 17:49, Trollcollect wrote:
Thanks to Jacob, i figured out that my statement/request was somewhat unprecise. What i really do want to do is to set a umask for OpenOffice w/kde, as well as all other kde applications. I noticed that if i open a terminal session, check the umask, it will not be set according to what i put in /etc/profile or /etc/login.defs. If, however, i su - into the same user, i see th correct umask. That leads me to the guess that kde sets a umask differently and independant of the login / standard umask. So the precise question would be: Where can i define a system wide umask for kde sessions?
TIA, Dan
"Jacob S." <> wrote: On Fri, 16 Jul 2004 16:53:46 +0200 (CEST)
Trollcollect wrote:
Hello List,
please reply Cc: to me as i cant follow this list from work.
My problem is that i cant find where to set the system wide umask for my sarge system. I've tried to do it in /etc/profile as well as /etc/login.defs, to no avail. So desperate that i even tried a reboot :(
Any pointers?
What syntax did you use? On my Sarge system it's in /etc/profile with a simple "umask 022" line. Logging out and back in should be enough for this setting to take affect.
What did you do to believe that the umask setting wasn't working?
Jacob
For the bash shell, the global setting for umask is done in /etc/bash.bashrc. To set it to something different for an individual user, it is set in ~/.bashrc.
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