On Mon, 27 May 2002 20:06:08 -0700
SAR <s_a_r_ieee@cox.net> wrote:

> 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

Uh, I was a bit sloppy.  The .kshrc file is not a login file, it's an environment file, which is sourced by my login file (.profile) at login time, and every time a sub-shell is created.  Sorry about the sloppyness.

SAR
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