Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 1:11 AM, gwmfms6 wrote: >> NOTE: this discussion is moot at the present time anyway because it is >> impossible to set a UMASK at all on Debian Stretch. None of the usual ways >> work within gnome on Debian Stretch. Can anyone comment on this fact? > > I had "UMASK 027" in /etc/login.defs and I didn't notice that this no > longer works because I also run `umask 027` from my shell > configuration. If you can track down why this no longer works, please > file a bug about it and convince the maintainer to fix it in stretch.
It doesn't work since pam_umask isn't run by default. However as far as I know this has been the case for a very long time (the oldest install I can check quickly is squeeze and it has the same issue). -- Arto Jantunen