Hy again,

I realised that I mistyped one character in /etc/pam.d/common-session. I
wrote
in it "pam.umask.so" and not "pam_umask.so", that was the problem. Sorry
for the
inconvinience I have caused.

Tamas Fekete

2015-06-08 16:51 GMT+02:00 Fekete Tamás <fek...@gmail.com>:

> 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!
>

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