[H-GEN] Global UMASK on Debian

[Robert Webb]

Hi,
Robert & Greg thank-you very much for you responses.

Sorry Greg you are quite right login.defs. :-)


I tried each users .bash_profile - no good. (it works ok on other systems
though)
Also tried /etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc  - no good.
I read all the relative doco's & man pages I could find.
Greped for umask * in /etc and checked though the files with references to
umask. Tried adding 007 or 0007 as per the comments in the conf file.
The setting should take the first setting you put in.

I have now re-partitioned & set up RAID1 on Ubuntu 5.10. which would suit me
just fine except it it hangs on shutdown with the line: -quotes
"[4295332.587000] Restarting System.
*note The values are different every time

Greg,
Yes, dummy users are a good idea. I always do the same.
Thank-you again for such a comprehensive answer.
I will be re-installing Debian and following your suggestions carefully.
There are some comments referring to the "gecos field having something to do
with UMASK, ULIMIT & NICENESS. (I will be going through the .conf files
again and see if there is anything else that need to be done for it to work.
I will do what you said & try & find the file it takes the value from
"first".

Regards guys, I feel like I know a bit more about what I'm looking for now.


Robert Webb

 

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