On 07-08-17, Garrett R. wrote: > Terminal confirms my umask is 022. That is, my entries at login.defs, > xsessionrc, etc are not working. > > Thank you for your assistance, Greg. Before asking here, my research > indicated gnome is the problem and it is because of systemd that there is a > problem. I assumed because gnome is default on debian, you might have some > insight. > > Thank you for your efforts, much appreciated. >
Depends on terminal. If you use xterm under Gnome, it will respect umask settings, wherever those are, global or local in .profile or .bashrc. But gnome-terminal does not respect those settings. Guess that you should file bug against gnome.