.profile is for the Bourne shell. Developers are likely using a different shell, perhaps Korn (which I use) or C Shell, which many programers like. Check their shell and insert the umask statement into the proper initialization script.
Regards, Thomas > I have a web development group on my server called webdev. All of > our > developers -- john, ginger, and richard -- are members of the > webdev > group. Each user, in their .profile file, has the line umask 002 > in it. > As I understand it, this will set things up so that when any of > the > developers creates a file, it will be created with -rwxrwxr-x > permissions, so that any user in the webdev group can modify file > created by anyone else in the group. > > Unfortunately, it's not working. Files created by any user has > -rw-rw-rw permissions, or -rw-r--r-- permissions. > > What might I have missed? > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Solaris-Users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/solaris-users > > > End of Solaris-Users Digest, Vol 12, Issue 8 > ******************************************** >
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