Ok.  Finally found it.  I added a line to the end of /etc/login.defs for:
UMASK   022
and that did the trick.

Thanks
Steve

At 12:24 PM 9/8/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> Is there something I am missing here that would allow me to user useradd
> and have it automatically set the new users home directory to 755 so that
> it can be used by the web server without having to go back and chmod the
> directory?  I am using RedHat 9.0 and this would be done from the command
> line, not Gnome.

The command that you're looking for is umask.  Check the man pages, the
command is a bit backwards, from my way of thinking.

You'll probably change the setting in /etc/bashrc.

Ben



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