umask

[Steve Holmes]

I realize the value and meaning of umask on the fstab options I think
what I wasn't sure about was the last two numeric options at the end
of the entry.  For ext2, I have 1 1 and on the FAT entries, it shows
as 1 0.  At this point, I don't recall if slackware did that or if I
specifically set it that way based on man page info.  Like I said
before, I need to go back and review that stuff.  I set those up quite
some time ago; it works great so leave it alone and thusly forget
about it:).

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 08:28:44PM -0400, jwantz at hpcc2.hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> Well umask is the exclusive or of the file permissions you want to assign 
> to files by default.  E.g. umask 022 would assign file permissions of 755 
> to your user files. Most sys admins use 022 and its the responsibility of 
> the user to ensure their privacy if they have something sensitive.
> 
>     Jim Wantz WB0TFK
> 
> 
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