[Thunar-dev] how to make thunar use umask 0007

[Jelle de Jong]

Jelle de Jong wrote:
> Jelle de Jong wrote:
>> Mike Massonnet wrote:
>>> Le Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:36:11 +0200,
>>> Jelle de Jong <jelledejong at powercraft.nl> a écrit :
>>>
>>>> Hello everybody, I got a big issue on a multi use system that uses
>>>> thunar as file manager.
>>>>
>>>> The system and user umasks are set to 007 but when i create files and
>>>> folders with thunar it does not correspond to the given umask. Can
>>>> somebody duplicate this behavior and why is this and how can we fix
>>>> this?
>>> You must have a problem the way you log into X.  IMHO what is happening
>>> is that the user doesn't have its umask set properly, unless he
>>> launches a session shell.
>>>
>>> Open a terminal and run Thunar --quit.  Then restart Thunar from the
>>> terminal and try to create a file and a directory.  It should work as
>>> expected.  At least here it works fine.
>>>
>>>> Kind regards,
>>>>
>>>> Jelle
>>>>
>>>> $ umask
>>>> 0007
>>>> $ thunar -v
>>>> Thunar 0.9.0 (Xfce 4.4.2)
>>> Mike
>> I did some more testing and thunar does not listen to the system umask
>> and i dont now why, I attached the screenshot to show the testing:
>>
>> Somebody that now what is going on and how to fix it?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Jelle de Jong
>>
> 
> I am going to ask again if this umask behavior can be confirmed, because
> its quite important for me. I set the complete system umask to be
> absolute sure and I still have the issue?
> 
> echo 'session optional        pam_umask.so umask=077' | sudo tee -a
> /etc/pam.d/common-session
> cat /etc/pam.d/common-session
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Jelle de Jong
> 

paste error -> change the line umask=077 to umask=007 for testing of
this issue.

Best regards,

Jelle de Jong