Short summary of the problem

[Stephen J. Muir]

In article <12695 at rochester.UUCP> ken at rochester.UUCP (and Vicki Herrieschopper) writes:
>In article <2841 at vax4.fluke.UUCP> norm at 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.
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