Home Directory Rights

Cottsay · 09-05-2005, 10:00 AM

Hi, I am running Fedora Core 3 without SELinux and I am looking for a way to set the default rights for newly created home directories for new users. I need to add execute to all, resulting in rwx--x--x. I've heard that umask may help in some way...not sure. I've looked at the /etc/skel file, no solution, and I don't find anything in /etc/default/useradd. Any ideas?

jailbait · 09-06-2005, 07:10 PM

"I am running Fedora Core 3 without SELinux and I am looking for a way to set the default rights for newly created home directories for new users."
"I've heard that umask may help in some way"

You need to change the default umask. In SuSE the default umask is defined in /etc/profile. I think that Fedora also uses /etc/profile for the user default umask.

Here is how umask works:

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man2/umask.2.html

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Steve Stites

Cottsay · 09-06-2005, 10:35 PM

I think that the actual default umask is hard coded and can't be changed, but I added the -m option to useradd and it created it with the rights I need to start with. Thanks much!