On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 16:51 +0200, Fekete Tamás wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I use wheezy 7.8 on x86_64 architecture and I'm simply unable to modify the > umask settings of the system. I have read many webpages for solution (even > helps specified for debian) but didn't find the answer what to do. > > Now, my umask is the default umask: 0022. I want it to be 0077. > > I took two steps to modify this variable. The first that I have edit > /etc/login defs. I rewrite the UMASK part of the file to look like this: > UMASK 077 > > My second step was to edit /etc/pam.d/common-session. I add a last line to > the: > #and here are moe per-package modules part of the file. The line is looking > like > this: > session optional pam_umask.so umask = 0077 > > The umask settings are not modified even if I am in gnome, or in normal > shell. > If you have any advice or good knowledge what is still missing to work, > please > share!
Even with pam, a I think a user can override this, do you have any umask settings in ~/.profile or similar files? Try checking the list in the second answer here, but it sounds like you've made all the right changes. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10220531/how-to-set-system-wide-umask -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5
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