Re: Subject: UMASK 002 or 022?

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Paul, you seemed to indicate that you were able to set a different "user 
default" umask in Stretch that's respected by gnome apps like gedit? How 
did you do it?


On 2017-06-28 09:21, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Ian Jackson wrote:
>
> > The appropriate default umask is 002 if the user's primary group is
> > named after the user, or 022 otherwise.
>
> AFAICT, neither of these achieve what the initiator of the thread
> wants to achieve; no read access by other users to one's files on
> multi-user systems by default.