Re: systemwide umask definition

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ucsc.edu>]

|>                                        I noticed that if i open a
|> terminal session, check the umask, it will not be set according to
|> what i put in /etc/profile or /etc/login.defs. If, however, i su -
|> into the same user, i see th correct umask. That leads me to the
|> guess that kde sets a umask differently and independant of the
|> login / standard umask. So the precise question would be: Where can
|> i define a system wide umask for kde sessions?

Isn't it true that the shells run by terminal-emulators in KDE are not
login shells?  By default, at any rate.  If that's the case, then the
user's local configuration files will not be sourced, nor, I think,
/etc/login.defs nor /etc/profile.

When a bash shell that is not a login shell is started, it reads and
executes commands from /etc/bash.bashrc and ~/.bashrc, if these files
exist. Is there a umask value defined in these files?

Jim