On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 12:33:55PM +0200, Wouter Hanegraaff wrote:
> Package: xfree86-common
> Version: 4.3.0.dfsg.1-4
> Severity: normal
>
> In /etc/login.defs I set umask to 002, and that works for logging in on
> the console or remote via ssh. However, if I use {g,x,k}dm I keep
> getting an umask of 022, because Xsession is started by the display
> manager which has a default umask of 022.
>
> It seems that Xsession doesn't change the UMASK at all. I think it
> should inherit the values from /etc/login.defs. But maybe this should be
> done by the display manager, in which case this bug applies to {g,k,x}dm
> and whatever other display managers Debian provides.I don't think there is an obviously correct solution to this problem, so I have submitted it to the debian-devel mailing list for discusson. -- G. Branden Robinson | Lowery's Law: Debian GNU/Linux | If it jams -- force it. If it [EMAIL PROTECTED] | breaks, it needed replacing anyway. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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