help setting umask corrently

[Chris Adams]

Once upon a time, Gregory Machin <gdm at linuxpro.co.za> said:
> I have a hack that sets the usmak for users in /etc/bashrc
> 
> umask -S u=rwx,g=rwx,o=r
> 
> The problem with this is that at logon it echo's "u=rwx,g=rwx,o=r"
> out.

You are telling umask to print the value with the "-S".  Take it out.

I will say that is a rather odd umask value.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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