Am I understanding this correctly in that if you change the profile in script reference above that it will change the permissions for all users of EG?   That is a problem in that we only want the permissions changed for specific users upon creating files - it seems like the default as one user noted is 644, we want 664 for selected users not everybody.  We want each user to be able to control this in their .bashrc with umask.   Note that if I run code outside of EG (for example using XWindows program like Mobaxterm) directly on the Unix server, then it reads my umask.   Using chmod is impractical since we are creating many permanent files all the time.   Is there any other way - can individual users' umask be read by executing a script in EG code with a system command "X....."? ... View more