umask in ubuntu

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Carlos Escutia Chávez wrote:

>I had a VERY hard time at getting a custom umask working with gnome
>(many weeks). Just create a file named ~/.gnomerc which contains:
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>umask 002
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>save, logout / login and that's it.
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>Regards.
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>On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 17:31:22 +0100, agenteo <mailinglist at agenteo.it> wrote:
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>>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.
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>># the default umask is set in /etc/login.defs
>>#umask 022
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>>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....
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>>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!
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>>Is this normal? How can I handle it?
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>>Thanks in advance,
>>Enrico
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Thanks, really cool :-)
Is it possible to set it for all the system users?
Enrico