Using umask
  The umask modifies the permissions of files that are created with 'open' and 'mkdir'.
   $ umask
   002
   $ touch newfile 
   $ ls -l newfile
   -rw-rw-r--  1   reegen   webfolk       0  Sep 17 10:00 newfile
   
   $ umask 077; touch newfile2; ls -l newfile2
   -rw-------  1   reegen   webfolk       0  Sep 17 10:00 newfile2

Copyright 2003, Bri Hatch of Onsight, Inc.

Presented at SPUG, 2003.

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