How to set the default file permissions on ALL newly created files in linux

Posted by eviljack on Super User See other posts from Super User or by eviljack
Published on 2009-10-01T11:56:45Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 5:26 UTC
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My question is similar to this:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/228534/linux-default-file-permission

but there is no scp/ftp client involved and that question looks abandoned. Simply put: I want to be able to, at some global level decree that all newly created files will never have world writable permissions (0775).

I tried putting a umask 02 in /etc/profile then in my bash_profile but it only works for scripts or new files that I create in a shell. It doesn't work for files that another binary creates. Is there anyway to have all new files that are created?

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