[Gllug] File permissions and umask on Ubuntu (and

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Sat Jan 6 18:39:37 UTC 2007


On Sat 06 Jan, John Winters wrote:
> 
> John Winters wrote:
> [snip]
> > Still investigating.
> 
> Found it!  It's a long-standing and well-documented (but alas un-fixed) 
> bug in gdm.  Whatever your system configuration it overrides it and 
> forces you to 0022.
> 
> Once I'd worked out it was only happening when I logged in through gdm, 
> the rest was easy.  Thank you for listening (seriously).
> 
> Cheers,
> John

   On the contrary, thanks for the info. I would have considered setting up
a separate named group with shared access for group members.

-- 
Chris Bell

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