Permissions, Permissions, Permissions

Daniel Carrera daniel.carrera at zmsl.com
Sun Jul 2 20:58:24 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-02-07 at 13:55 -0500, Bobby Sanders wrote:
> Running Breezy. gnome2, metacity
> 
> For user joe, set Joe's umask to 0007 in ~/joe/.bashrc

That's the problem. Joe's umask is set in ~/.bashrc and so it only
affects programs that are run from bash (ie. from the terminal). It
doesn't affect programs running from the menu because those are not run
from bash.

I'm not sure what the best fix is though...

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