umask in ubuntu

[Carlos Escutia Chávez]

I had a VERY hard time at getting a custom umask working with gnome
(many weeks). Just create a file named ~/.gnomerc which contains:

umask 002

save, logout / login and that's it.


Regards.


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:31:22 +0100, agenteo <mailinglist at agenteo.it> wrote:
> Hi,
> I've tried to change the umask in ubuntu to create files with a
> different set of permissions (umask 002).
> So I've searched in .bash_profile
> Where I've founded this:
> # ~/.bash_profile: executed by bash(1) for login shells.
> # see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
> # the files are located in the bash-doc package.
> 
> # the default umask is set in /etc/login.defs
> #umask 022
> 
> So I was assuming to change the umask in /etc/login.defs
> Actually I didn't understant if the login package is used even by the
> Gnome Display Manager to log in the user, is it? I guess it's not cause
> changing umask there does nothing....
> 
> I've solved changing umask in /etc/bash.bashrc
> Or better now every file created from a shell have the new umask. But
> files created from programs like OpenOffice.org and other in GUI (like
> GIMP) doesn't!
> 
> Is this normal? How can I handle it?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Enrico
> 
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