On Sun, May 27, 2007 at 03:30:33PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote:
> I'm trying to get a single user to default to a umask of 002, regardless
> of login method (e.g. gdm or ssh) so that I don't have to update the
> umask in a host of different places. So, I installed:
>
> libpam-umask/testing uptodate 0.04
>
> and placed a .pam_umask in the user's directory. It's not clear from the
> readme what the contents ought to be, though. I've tried both:
>
> 002
>
> and:
>
> session optional pam_umask.so umask=002
>
> and in neither case does the umask get properly set. It remains 0022,
> which is the login default.
>
> What am I doing wrong here?
Couldn't you just edit /etc/profile:
if [ "`id -ur`" -eq 1234 ]; then
umask 002
else
umask 022
fi
where 1234 is the user id? Or is it something more subtle that
you're trying to do?
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David Jardine
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loving every minute of it." -L. von Sacher-M.(1835-1895)
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