[NTLUG:Discuss] force group ownership

[Bug Hunter]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Bobby Wrenn wrote:

> I think these are the relavant snips for /etc/profile
> 
> ##### Handle by Mandrake Security
> #if [ `id -gn` = `id -un` -a `id -u` -gt 14 ]; then
> #       umask 002
> #else
> #       umask 022
> #fi
> 
> appears to be all comments. Which I would uncomment except for this at
> the end of the file
> 
> # Mandrake-Security : if you remove this comment, remove the next line
> too.
> umask 022
> 
> What do these numbers mean?

   when you create a file, it has a default set of permissions.  The umask
variable is applied to the default set of permissions at that time.  This
allows you to cause files created by you to have a different set of
permissions.

  In other words, you can make it so only you can read files you create,
by default.

 man umask