umask

[Todd Zullinger]

Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> How does one change the umask for Gnome logins?
> 
> It's easy enough for shell logins because they source .bash_profile
> properly.  But, Gnome seems to be ignoring my umask setting in my
> .bash_profile.  It's being set somewhere, obviously.
> 
> I was considering adding a umask to GDM's init.  I don't think
> that's the proper place though.  I also don't think that will work.

It seems that you could add a umask call in /etc/profile or ~/.profile
according to this gdm bug:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305931

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