[ale] umask for root on Suse?

[Geoffrey]

List wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
>> Since I'm no longer using SuSE, I can't research this issue.  Where is 
>> the umask for root set on a SuSE box?
>>
> On mine (ver 9.2) it's in /etc/profile.  However, since that is the 
> default profile for all users a change there will change it for 
> everyone.  I did not try putting a .profile in / but I assume that would 
> be where you'd want to put it to get special settings for the root login.
> 
> I can test that if you need me to.

Thanks, I think they've got it figured out.  I believe they chose to 
test for the user id in /etc/profile and set it accordingly.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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