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

[Mike Brodbelt]

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.

Mike
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