[plug] UMASK again

[Matt Kemner]

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Earnshaw, Mike wrote:

> -rwxr--r-- mike projman
> 
> With my UMASK of 022 what has happened is 666 (file) - 022 (UMASK) =
> 644. Why does the file appear to have permissions 744?

Odd.
Hopefully someone else can explain that one.
 
> Also when I issue UMASK {enter} it shows 022, I take it this is a system
> wide UMASK. How would you set a user specific UMASK? 

"umask xxx" :)

Add that to your .bashrc or .bash_profile

> My man UMASK does not show any info and man passwd does not appear to
> refer to it.

"man bash" has _some_ info.

 - Matt