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  1. Bug #1685754
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 1685754

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Etienne URBAH (eurbah) wrote : Re: gnome-terminal unduly forces umask=0022

$ grep '^ *[^#].*pam_umask' /etc/pam.d/*
/etc/pam.d/common-session:session optional pam_umask.so
/etc/pam.d/common-session-noninteractive:session optional pam_umask.so

Whatever sources of confusion :

Even with 'umask=007' in the 'gecos' field of '/etc/passwd', 'gnome-terminal' currently starts with umask=022.

I confirm that this issue is a security issue, which must be corrected.

IMHO, the best fix would be that GNOME systematically uses the standard 'pam_umask' module.