Re: Subject: UMASK 002 or 022?
Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:11 AM, gwmfms6 wrote:
>> NOTE: this discussion is moot at the present time anyway because it is
>> impossible to set a UMASK at all on Debian Stretch. None of the usual ways
>> work within gnome on Debian Stretch. Can anyone comment on this fact?
>
> I had "UMASK 027" in /etc/login.defs and I didn't notice that this no
> longer works because I also run `umask 027` from my shell
> configuration. If you can track down why this no longer works, please
> file a bug about it and convince the maintainer to fix it in stretch.
It doesn't work since pam_umask isn't run by default. However as far as
I know this has been the case for a very long time (the oldest install I
can check quickly is squeeze and it has the same issue).
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Arto Jantunen
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