Re: [vile] Tags not working, how to diagnose?

[Chris G]

On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 08:45:40AM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Oct 2007, Chris G wrote:
>
>>> It "should" work if you chmod the directory to 755.
>>>
>> That's it, thanks.
>>
>> I don't quite know why all my directories are 775 at the moment, no
>> good reason I suspect.  Aha, umask is set to 0002.
>
> I've had to fix a few of my accounts where the system's installed with
> umask 0002 (odd).
>
I had a little dig around and this is why it is, in /etc/bashrc :-

    if [ $UID -gt 99 ] && [ "`id -gn`" = "`id -un`" ]; then
        umask 002
    else
        umask 022
    fi
 
Default when you add a new user is to make them their own group with
the same name and so you get umask 002.

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Chris Green