umask dilemma

[Marius Gedminas]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 06:20:57PM +0100, Dieter Schicker wrote:
> I want to set file mask to 660 and directory mask to 770 for all my
> users on a certain machine. I don't want to play with /etc/login.defs
> and /etc/bashrc.bashrc etc ... So I tried libpam-umask with the
> following /etc/pam.d/common-session:
> 
> session required        pam_umask.so umask=006

You want to set the umask to 007, otherwise directories will get mode
771 instead of 770.

> session sufficient      pam_ldap.so
> session required        pam_unix.so
> 
> Well, nothing happens. If I create a file, it gets 644. Tried all kind
> of combinations with absolutely no success ...

Probably the 'umask 022' in /etc/profile overrides your pam_umask
setting.  Remove it from /etc/profile and try again.

Marius Gedminas
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