guess I should have given an example. I have a cron job that backups a
data directory and the tar file has the following permissions
-rw-r--r-- and I would like to drop the 'other' read. I could just
issue a chmod, but I would have to do this for every cron job, I just
figured I could change the umask and that would take care of all.
Wandered Inn wrote:
>
> jonathan wrote:
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I want to make my home systems so that all files created have no rwx for
> > the "other" group. I have found umask options in a couple of places.
> > Where all do I need to make this change? My wife and I are in a
> > specific group, so I don't want "other" to have any permissions. I have
> > a cable modem and am a little paranoid. I am using SuSE6.4. TIA
>
> Based on previous UNIX implementations, you could put a call to umask in
> the /etc/profile script to force these settings on login. I'm not sure
> that Linux always follows suite here, but my current experiences
> indicate it does.
>
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