[Gllug] File permissions and umask on Ubuntu (and I think probably, Debian)
John Winters
john at sinodun.org.uk
Sat Jan 6 19:24:13 UTC 2007
Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> 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).
>
> So have you found a way to make it work now, or have you just stopped
> using GDM? That's a very big problem to be "long standing", though sadly
> that seems not to be unusual for GNOME applications.
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.
John
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