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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers changing default file permissions Post 94086 by FredSmith on Tuesday 27th of December 2005 11:54:03 AM
Old 12-27-2005
I put umask 077 (the permissions that I want, RWX for owner, nothing for group or all) in the .profile.

But after I logout and log back in, it's as if it is not working. Is .profile the correct file to put this line into?
 

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MojoMojo::Controller::User(3pm) 			User Contributed Perl Documentation			   MojoMojo::Controller::User(3pm)

NAME
MojoMojo::Controller::User - Login/User Management Controller DESCRIPTION
This controller performs user management: registration, login, logout, password recovery and profile editing. ACTIONS
login (/.login) Log in through the authentication system. logout ( /.logout ) Log out the user. users ( /.users ) Show a list of the active users with links to the pages they edited. page_user Show a user's preferences prefs ( .prefs ) Main user preferences screen. password ( .prefs/password ) Change password action. template: user/password.tt recover_pass Email a user a new password register ( /.register ) Show new user registration form. template: "user/register.tt" is_account_taken Test to see if a login or email is already in use. do_register ( /.register ) New user registration processing. templates: "user/password.tt", "user/validate.tt" validate ( /.validate ) Validation of user email. Will accept a md5_hex mailed to the user earlier. Non-validated users will only be able to log out. reconfirm Send the confirmation mail again to another address. profile ( .profile ) Show user profile. editprofile Form to edit a person's profile do_editprofile Apply the edits to a person's profile AUTHOR
David Naughton <naughton@cpan.org>, Marcus Ramberg <mramberg@cpan.org> LICENSE
This library is free software. You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.14.2 2011-09-02 MojoMojo::Controller::User(3pm)
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