[Gllug] File permissions and umask on Ubuntu (and I think probably, Debian)

[Progga]

On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 07:24:13PM +0000, John Winters wrote:
> 
> Yes, the workaround is to add a "umask 002" instruction in 
> /etc/gdm/Xsession.  I put it just after the "Beginning session setup..." 
> message.  The alternative of putting it in /etc/gdm/Init/Default (as 
> suggested in the conversation about bug #336214) doesn't work.  I've 
> added a note to the bug record and modified the DebianDesktop Wiki page 
> to include the workaround.

Thanks.  Now I have two things in mind -

	0. Isn't the ACL approach better?
	1. Why is this shared-dir thing giving us so much trouble?  Why didn't
	it come to anyone in the 28 year long history of Unix that there should
	be a very simple and easy solution?  Really strange!

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