Unmask Problems - Hoary 5.01

[Bill Marcum]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 17:47:49 -0500, 'Forum Post 
  <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
>
> Does anybody manage to actually get the module working?
>
> I tried inserting the row (before the last 'session reqired' line) in
> common-session. Then I get the umask I want when I log on to a console.
>
> Within Gnome it won't do anything. I also tried to add the line to the
> gdm entry in pam.d. The only effect I can get is that the gdm login
> stops working if the line is changed to 'session required'. (You could
> easily lock yourself completely out, so be sure to have an working
> console before experimenting too much.)
>
You might add "umask=002" to ~/.xsession (create the file if it doesn't 
already exist).


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