Re: unable to modify umask settings in wheezy 7.8
On Mon, 2015-06-08 at 16:51 +0200, Fekete Tamás wrote: Hello everyone, I use wheezy 7.8 on x86_64 architecture and I'm simply unable to modify the umask settings of the system. I have read many webpages for solution (even helps specified for debian) but didn't find the answer what to do. Now, my umask is the default umask: 0022. I want it to be 0077. I took two steps to modify this variable. The first that I have edit /etc/login defs. I rewrite the UMASK part of the file to look like this: UMASK 077 My second step was to edit /etc/pam.d/common-session. I add a last line to the: #and here are moe per-package modules part of the file. The line is looking like this: session optional pam_umask.so umask = 0077 The umask settings are not modified even if I am in gnome, or in normal shell. If you have any advice or good knowledge what is still missing to work, please share! Even with pam, a I think a user can override this, do you have any umask settings in ~/.profile or similar files? Try checking the list in the second answer here, but it sounds like you've made all the right changes. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10220531/how-to-set-system-wide-umask -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 6FAB5CD5 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: unable to modify umask settings in wheezy 7.8
Fekete Tamás wrote: I use wheezy 7.8 on x86_64 architecture and I'm simply unable to modify the umask settings of the system. I have read many webpages for solution (even helps specified for debian) but didn't find the answer what to do. Now, my umask is the default umask: 0022. I want it to be 0077. Wow. That is very restrictive. Are you sure you need such setting? I took two steps to modify this variable. The first that I have edit /etc/login defs. I rewrite the UMASK part of the file to look like this: UMASK 077 Much chaos exists surrounding how to set umask by the system for users. In Etch 4 there was major changes. In Squeeze 6 there were more changes. Therefore one must be careful looking at documentation to make sure the docs match the version of Debian they are currently using. /etc/login.defs is the old Debian way from before Etch 4. With varying age and applicability here is a collection of references through time in Debian that I have collected apply on umask. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianDesktopHowTo https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=646692 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2005/06/msg01598.html http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=336214 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=314539 My second step was to edit /etc/pam.d/common-session. I add a last line to the: #and here are moe per-package modules part of the file. The line is looking like this: session optional pam_umask.so umask = 0077 Are there really spaces around the equals sign? I believe that needs to be passed as one argument. session optional pam_umask.so umask=0077 The umask settings are not modified even if I am in gnome, or in normal shell. If you have any advice or good knowledge what is still missing to work, please share! I haven't updated this for either Wheezy or Jessie so beware that I might be stale but my latest notes on setting umask say add this to the /etc/pam.d/common-session file: session optional pam_umask.so umask=002 Most people normally want 02 for general use. If you want 077 that is okay but not for general purpose use. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature
unable to modify umask settings in wheezy 7.8
Hello everyone, I use wheezy 7.8 on x86_64 architecture and I'm simply unable to modify the umask settings of the system. I have read many webpages for solution (even helps specified for debian) but didn't find the answer what to do. Now, my umask is the default umask: 0022. I want it to be 0077. I took two steps to modify this variable. The first that I have edit /etc/login defs. I rewrite the UMASK part of the file to look like this: UMASK 077 My second step was to edit /etc/pam.d/common-session. I add a last line to the: #and here are moe per-package modules part of the file. The line is looking like this: session optional pam_umask.so umask = 0077 The umask settings are not modified even if I am in gnome, or in normal shell. If you have any advice or good knowledge what is still missing to work, please share!
Re: unable to modify umask settings in wheezy 7.8
Hy again, I realised that I mistyped one character in /etc/pam.d/common-session. I wrote in it pam.umask.so and not pam_umask.so, that was the problem. Sorry for the inconvinience I have caused. Tamas Fekete 2015-06-08 16:51 GMT+02:00 Fekete Tamás fek...@gmail.com: Hello everyone, I use wheezy 7.8 on x86_64 architecture and I'm simply unable to modify the umask settings of the system. I have read many webpages for solution (even helps specified for debian) but didn't find the answer what to do. Now, my umask is the default umask: 0022. I want it to be 0077. I took two steps to modify this variable. The first that I have edit /etc/login defs. I rewrite the UMASK part of the file to look like this: UMASK 077 My second step was to edit /etc/pam.d/common-session. I add a last line to the: #and here are moe per-package modules part of the file. The line is looking like this: session optional pam_umask.so umask = 0077 The umask settings are not modified even if I am in gnome, or in normal shell. If you have any advice or good knowledge what is still missing to work, please share!
