On Mon, 27 May 2002 22:40:58 -0400 (EDT)
Jeff Flowers <jeffrey@jeffreyf.net> wrote:

> I was wondering if anyone could explain how to set the default umask
> for a particular user? The umask man page does not tell me how and
> apropos doesn't turn up anything else.

Easy, you set it in the user's login script.  For example, I use Korn shell.  
I set mine in my .kshrc file.  For example:

  umask 077

This is a fairly restrictive example.  Hope this helps.
 
> Thanks!

You're welcome.

> Jeff Flowers
> jeffrey@jeffreyf.net
> 
> NetBSD rocks!

That it do!

SAR
sar@computer.org