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Re: GUI apps not honoring umask

From Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: GUI apps not honoring umask
Date 2013-04-03 14:48 -0400
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On 04/03/2013 01:45 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 03/04/13 17:59, J G Miller wrote:
>> On Wednesday, April 3rd, 2013, at 17:08:46h +0100,
>> The Natural Philosopher declared:
>>
>>> It looks as though mdm sets its own umask irrespective of other
>>> settings.
>>
>> Look at the files under /etc/mdm then, especially PostLogin.
>>
>> Would you care to give an example of a GUI program which creates
>> files with the wrong permissions?
>>
> oh firefox. save an image somewhere an look at its perms. Or libre
> office - create a document and save it.
> 
> 
I do not know what permission libreoffice spreadsheets uses, but either
it is 0640 or my umask is working.

DellT7600:jeandavid8[~/Documents/spreadsheets]$ ls -l
total 340
[snip]
-rw-r-----. 1 jeandavid8 jeandavid8  8987 Dec 10 15:52 Stocks.ods
-rw-r-----. 1 jeandavid8 jeandavid8  8690 Dec 10 15:52 Supplements.ods
-rw-r-----. 1 jeandavid8 jeandavid8 11959 Dec 10 20:03 U-CONTROL.ods
DellT7600:jeandavid8[~/Documents/spreadsheets]$ umask
0027
DellT7600:jeandavid8[~/Documents/spreadsheets]$

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GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-02 19:29 +0100
  Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2013-04-02 15:03 -0400
    Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Lew Pitcher <lpitcher@teksavvy.com> - 2013-04-02 15:08 -0400
      Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-02 21:01 +0100
  Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2013-04-03 06:27 +0000
    Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 11:01 +0100
      Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-04-03 06:22 -0500
        Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 12:46 +0100
          Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-04-03 08:13 -0500
            Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2013-04-03 22:13 +0000
              Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 23:45 +0100
              Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-04-03 17:50 -0500
        Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Chick Tower <c.tower@deadspam.com> - 2013-04-04 17:47 +0000
      Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2013-04-03 07:27 -0400
        Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 12:48 +0100
          Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2013-04-03 09:59 -0400
            Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 15:26 +0100
              Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-04-03 15:28 +0100
              Re: GUI apps not honoring umask J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-04-03 14:46 +0000
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 17:08 +0100
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask J G Miller <miller@yoyo.ORG> - 2013-04-03 16:59 +0000
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 18:45 +0100
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2013-04-03 14:48 -0400
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 19:56 +0100
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8@verizon.net> - 2013-04-03 15:28 -0400
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Octothorpe <Octothorpe@invalid.com> - 2013-04-03 18:33 -0400
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 23:47 +0100
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Octothorpe <Octothorpe@invalid.com> - 2013-04-03 19:30 -0400
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-04-04 09:08 +0100
                Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 18:48 +0100
  Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2013-04-03 11:53 +0000
    Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 13:22 +0100
      Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2013-04-03 12:49 +0000
        Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 15:22 +0100
          Re: GUI apps not honoring umask Bit Twister <BitTwister@mouse-potato.com> - 2013-04-03 21:20 +0000
            Re: GUI apps not honoring umask The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-03 22:32 +0100

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