Hello everyone, I use wheezy 7.8 on x86_64 architecture and I'm simply unable to modify the umask settings of the system. I have read many webpages for solution (even helps specified for debian) but didn't find the answer what to do.
Now, my umask is the default umask: 0022. I want it to be 0077. I took two steps to modify this variable. The first that I have edit /etc/login defs. I rewrite the UMASK part of the file to look like this: UMASK 077 My second step was to edit /etc/pam.d/common-session. I add a last line to the: #and here are moe per-package modules part of the file. The line is looking like this: session optional pam_umask.so umask = 0077 The umask settings are not modified even if I am in gnome, or in normal shell. If you have any advice or good knowledge what is still missing to work, please share!