Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4398 mails)

["Greg Wallace" <jgregw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesay, September 06, 2005 @ 1:26 PM, Jay Paulson wrote:

>>> Well FC3 does it with the /etc/bashrc file.  It just looks to see if
>>> the user logging in has the same default usergroup as their username.
>>> If so set the umask to 002 otherwise set it to 022.  It does this for
>>> every user when logging in.  However, the why SuSE's users and how 
>>> they
>>> are put in the default group users doesn't make this work.  Therefore,
>>> I was looking at how I can do this in SuSE like FC3 does it.  I guess 
>>> I
>>> could edit the /etc/profile file and write a small script that said if
>>> the user is in the users group then set the umask to 002.  Though I
>>> think this would probably cause more problems especially if the file
>>> gets over written like another said in this thread.
>> You should not edit /etc/profile or /etc/bash.bashrc
>> You do not need to set a script. You can do virtually the same thing 
>> in SuSE
>> as you did in FC3. The main difference is whether to put it
>> into /etc/profile.local or /etc/bash.bashrc.local.

>Very cool! :)  I noticed that my system doesn't have either 
>/etc/profile.local or /etc/bash.bashrc.local.  Do I just create one or 
>both of those file and it should work?

>jay

Yes

Greg Wallace