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To: "Bill Moran" <bill_moran2@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Default permissions under X (umask?)
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From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen)
Date: 25 Dec 2002 17:47:52 -0800
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> >It *should* work -- it does for me.
> >[Although, in my case, it's the .xsession file, because I use xdm.]
> 
> Well, now that I'm taking a more careful look, it does ... sort of.

In any case, it seems like it should be set in one place which holds for
both X and non-X sessions.  Maybe cobbled into a shell startup file or
even /etc/rc, but preferably in the "login" setup -- look for "umask" in
the login.conf manpage.

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