On 07-08-17, Garrett R. wrote: > I apologize for the omissions. > > I am booting debian to GDM. I login. I then open gedit (or libreoffice, etc). I type document. I save it. > Have you tried to set in /etc/pam.d/login this: session optional pam_umask.so umask=0077 Logout and login back after that?