How can you set a custom umask on Mountain Lion?

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How can you set a custom umask on Mountain Lion?

So the method for setting the umask on Lion works fine. I have one machine running Mountain Lion and it doesn't work. I can't find any info on this anywhere. Thanks!

OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Aug 13, 2012 6:34 PM

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Linc Davis

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Aug 13, 2012 8:17 PM in response to Jared_k

What do you get from "launchctl umask"? What do you want the umask to be?

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Aug 14, 2012 7:51 PM in response to Linc Davis

Well, on Lion, all I needed to do was log out then back in for it to take effect. I assumed this was would be the case for Mountain Lion, but that wasnt so. It needed a full shutdown; now it's obeying the umask just fine.

Thanks for reminding me about launchctl umask.

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