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martintxo

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Registered: 2008-04-28

Posts: 2

Default umask for Thunar

Hello:

I need to default to a diferent umask for make new dirs in thunar. I'm using Debian/stable, with xfce 4.3.99 and Thunar 0.4.0rc1. In this environment all new dirs maked with thunar comes with permissions: drwxr-xr-x (umask 022) and I need to change it to drwxrwxr-x per dafault (umask 002). I test the same in a Debian/testing box, and I get the same :-/.

For accomplish this problem, I try some diferent ways:

- Set umask 002 in ~/.bash_profile. This only works for the X-shells.
- Change the default umask in /etc/profile and in /etc/login.def. No works for thunar.
- Use libpam-umask as said in /etc/login.def. No works, but maybe I don't understand well how  it works :-?.
- Tray to set umask 002 in: /usr/bin/startx, /usr/bin/startxfce4, ~/.config/xfce4/xinitrc ...

So, now I don't know how much can I try. There is some relation betwen my problem and Bug 3532 - Thunar mask restrictions on group and other (http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3532)? (I don't understand well this one).

There is anybody that have change the default umask in thunar?. What's the trick?. Thanks in advance. Excuse my bad english. Greetings. Martintxo.

martintxo

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Registered: 2008-04-28

Posts: 2

Re: Default umask for Thunar

See this (maybe can resolve it):

Mailinglist:
http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/thuna … 04457.html

Ubuntu pach:
http://launchpadlibrarian.net/15574407/ … perms.diff

Thunar bugreport:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3532

cgelinek_radlogic

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Registered: 2024-04-11

Posts: 1

Re: Default umask for Thunar

I just had a similar issue on Debian 12, in which all desktop programs were started with the default 022 umask, instead of the one configured in /etc/login.defs.

To make PAM and systemd use the value from  /etc/login.defs, I had to add the following line to my /etc/pam.d/common-session file:

session optional pam_umask.so

...and after a reboot, my programs started from the XFCE session now use the umask configured in /etc/login.defs.

See https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/254923/55900 and https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/379329/55900 for more information.