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Old 05-16-2006
steweston steweston is offline
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umask

Fred,

Look at the man page for the 'umask' command.

Careful - the umask command works to REMOVE permissions from the user's default, rather than add them.

More generally, this will acheive what you need, but consider the security implications of setting the user's default file creation permissions to 777 before you proceed.

Steve
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