umask in ubuntu

[Tony Arnold]

Is this in hoary but not in warty? I can't find this package in any of
the warty repositories, and I'm searching universe and multiverse!

Tony.

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 14:34 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * 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:
> 
> : tfheen at thosu ~ > apt-cache show libpam-umask
> Package: libpam-umask
> [...]
> Description: adjust users' default umask using PAM
>  This PAM module sets the umask for successfully authenticated
>  sessions.  The umask affects the permissions assigned to newly
>  created files by default.
>  .
>  This package is useful to ensure that users' umasks are set
>  consistently whether their session is initiated by login, SSH, a
>  display manager for the X Window System, or some other means.
> 
> (Yes, I know this is an old mail I'm replying to :)
> 
> -- 
> Tollef Fog Heen                                                        ,''`.
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