[..] > Simple question: > Did you check that Bash is not setting umask for you? Of course. I commented all such calls to umask. On the other side, bash's configuration should not interfere with Nautilus at all by default, unless I misunderstood something.
> You should check: > ~/.bash_profile > ~/.bashrc > ~/.profile > And other user-related files that Gnome reads when you login (or > whatever other shell you use if you start a terminal automatically when > you login) Well, it is rather difficult to issue a grep on users' configuration but there is no longer uncontrolled umask call anywhere in /etc left. > Then you will have to check the config files for bash in /etc/ > > /etc/profile > /etc/bash.bashrc > > And possibly others... I check everything possible. > Lastly, you will also need to check PAM's configurations, in particular > the files in: > > /etc/security/*.conf Could you be more explicit? I searched there, but did not see what could interfere. I can see maybe pam_env could be used, but I'm not really sure of how. > Hope that helps... -- J�r�me Warnier Consultant BeezNest http://beeznest.net

