On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 07:44:35PM +0200, Lists wrote: > On 2024-07-14 19:18, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 14, 2024 at 19:09:54 +0200, Hans wrote: > > > I am wondering, why on a multiuser system like debian the rights for a > > > normal > > > user are "rw- r-- r--", (owner: user and ownergroup: usergroup) > > > > Tradition, and a culture based around sharing. > > > > The Unix culture of openness and freedom (specifically the freedom to > > distribute your work to others) works best if you can say "Hey Betty, > > can you take a look at my .bashrc? I can't get my foo() function to > > work." Or "Hey friends, I've made some changes to my bar.c file that > > you might want to look at." And then they can just read the files > > directly from your home directory. > > > > If you don't like this setting, change it. > > > > Setting umask in your shell profile isn't that hard indeed. I've doing that > for years. However, that does not mean your DE will honour that setting. I > have tried to do so for KDE (more specifically Krusader), but I ended up > nowhere. I haven't found a setting that will be honoured KDE wide or even > just in Krusader alone.
The place to do this is the X session [1]; system-wide in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/... and for each user in ~/.xsessionrc. You might have to set allow-user-session in the global config /etc/X11/Xsession.options to make the second possible. Cheers [1] https://wiki.debian.org/Xsession -- t
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
