Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 +SENDMAIL+2.11; site dcl-cs.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!stephen From: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir) Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd Subject: Re: Short summary of the problem Message-ID: <748@dcl-cs.UUCP> Date: Tue, 29-Oct-85 16:06:23 EST Article-I.D.: dcl-cs.748 Posted: Tue Oct 29 16:06:23 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 31-Oct-85 08:58:06 EST References: <2841@vax4.fluke.UUCP> <12695@rochester.UUCP> Reply-To: stephen@dcl-cs.UUCP (Stephen J. Muir) Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University. Lines: 18 In article <12695@rochester.UUCP> ken@rochester.UUCP (and Vicki Herrieschopper) writes: >In article <2841@vax4.fluke.UUCP> norm@fluke.UUCP (Norm Seethoff) writes: >> rshd does not establish the same umask as login. Files created >> via commands executed by rshd on behalf of a remote client have >> world write permission. > >On our system (4.2 BSD) I worked around the problem by putting the >umask statement in .cshrc instead of .login. You will need to do this >anyway if you want anything other than the default. Personally, I would rather change "/etc/init" to set the default umask to 022. This is because "/etc/cron" also suffers from this problem. -- UUCP: ...!seismo!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!stephen DARPA: stephen%lancs.comp@ucl-cs | Post: University of Lancaster, JANET: stephen@uk.ac.lancs.comp | Department of Computing, Phone: +44 524 65201 Ext. 4599 | Bailrigg, Lancaster, UK. Project:Alvey ECLIPSE Distribution | LA1 4YR