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From: rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: umask under 4.3 BSD
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Date: Wed, 10-Jun-87 15:54:48 EDT
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   In article <7554@brl-adm.ARPA> eichelbe@nadc.arpa (H. McCloskey) writes:
   >I am running 4.3 BSD on a VAX 11/780.  Does anyone know how I could
   >change the system-wide "umask" so when I person does something like
   >echo "stuff" > x
   >x will have the file permission 0600 and not 0644?  I have source code
   >for the system.

   In the source for /bin/login, change the line:

	 umask(022);

   to:

	 umask(077);

   Then just re-install login, and you'll have your new system-wide umask.

   --Pat.


	(Root Boy) Jim Cottrell	<rbj@icst-cmr.arpa>
	National Bureau of Standards
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