On Thu, 19 Apr 2007, Ian Moore wrote: > However the snag I have is that I'm having problems in getting the > default umask value to stay as requested. I've got two files in /etc > called profile. One is named just profile and contains the umask and > also an extra line added by some sql install. The other is called > 'profile.sic'. They both are identical but the first one has had the > extra line added as mentioned above.
Just had a quick search around and found this: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopHowTo "Finally, change the default umask to 002. Unless libpam-umask is installed (see below), this has to be set in /etc/profile and /etc/login.defs . Now family group members can work with each other's files in the group directory without permission hassle." So, open /etc/login.defs and find the line: #UMASK 022 remove the # and change to 002. Again I haven't tested this, but it sounds like that should work. > What am I doing wrong? You're following instructions I didn't have time to test. Sorry, that's my fault not yours! > Also as a last attempt I modified the profile in opt/ltsp/etc which was > the same. That's definitely not it. The session that needs umasking is running on the server, not the thin client so the umask setting has to somewhere the server would look at. Gavin -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
