On Sat, 10 Jun 2006, Alex Riesen wrote: > > ~/.ssh/rc > > AFAIK, it was always there. Note that since umask is a per-process flag, and only inherited from parents to children, not the other way around, if the rc file is run as a separate shell script (and I assume it is) instead of "sourced" from the the shell that actually executes the programs you run, then this won't help at all. Try: sh -c "umask 0777 ; umask" ; umask to see in more graphic ("textual") detail what I mean. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html