also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.06.16.2310 +0200]: > That should work. > I just tried it and it worked. > I edited /etc/profile, and then commented out the umask in ~/.bash_profile > and then re-logged in via ssh. umask showed what was set in /etc/profile.
Yeah, dumb me was using zsh, which does not read /etc/profile.
Setting umask globally is a catastrophe. /etc/login.defs *should* be
the central location, but it's not used for SSH (obviously).
I am going to propose to have this situation rectified. :)
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