[H-GEN] Global UMASK on Debian

[Robert Brockway]

On Fri, 11 Nov 2005, Robert Webb wrote:

> I tried each users .bash_profile - no good. (it works ok on other systems
> though)
> Also tried /etc/bashrc or ~/.bashrc  - no good.

You are using bash right? :)  This really should work :)  It's how I set 
my umask.

Either the bashrc files or the profile files should be parsed for an 
interactive shell.

A common trick is to read the ~/.bashrc in through ~/.bash_profile for 
consistency.  Just put this in ~/.bash_profile

# include .bashrc if it exists
if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]; then
     . ~/.bashrc
fi

> 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.

Actually the shell will take the _last_ umask setting it is given (it just 
changes it each time a new one is issued).

> 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

Except for niceness I wouldn't put them in the gecos field because there 
are better places IMHO.  ulimits can be set through 
/etc/security/limits.conf in Debian.

Cheers,

Rob

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