In /etc/profile /etc/csh.login etc. change the umask from 022 to 026. On SUSE the default is 022 which says the default permissions for creating non-executable files is the exclusive or 022 against 666 -> 644. Changing it to 026 should give you 640 -> rw-r-----.
-----Original Message----- I've asked a simular question before this and the concensus was to use ACL instead of permissions, but... The default permissions defined when a file is created, seems to be +644. This allows any Linux user to read the file, even the user isn't the owner or isn't a member of the same group. That's not too good. I would like to change something, somewhere, so that for certain users, any files they create have permissions set to something like +640, or perhaps +600. I can keep FTP users from changing to someone else's directory and reading. Samba and Putty users seem to have the unrestrictive ability to change directories to other users. If I can't keep them from changing to someone elses directory, I would like to at least stop them with a permission of zero for "other" users. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
