Default umask of 077 on SCO Sys V 3.2 and how to change

Geoff Coleman geoff at ugc.uucp
Sun Jun 9 14:54:04 AEST 1991


In article <DJM.91Jun8105413 at bleen.eng.umd.edu> djm at eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie) writes:
>> 	I have run into a problem with the default umask on SCO
>> Unix 3.2 being set to 077 rather than the more common 022. Is there
>> any way to change the sytem wide default for this. 
>
>Check /etc/profile and /etc/cshrc -- the distributed versions set the
>umask to 077.
>--
>David J. MacKenzie <djm at eng.umd.edu> <djm at ai.mit.edu>

	But his isn't a logged in shell it's an NFS "session". As well If I 
comment out the umask entry in /etc/profile it comes up with a default umask
of 077.


Geoff Coleman



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