Bug#336214: gdm ignores user and system umask settings
Benoît Dejean
benoit at placenet.org
Fri Oct 28 16:55:14 UTC 2005
Package: gdm
Version: 2.6.0.8-1
Severity: normal
Hi,
it looks like gdm ignores both system-wide umask settings
(from /etc/login.defs) and user settings (in ~/.<myshell>rc/profile file).
This is surpringly dangerous. Then desktop application uses gdm default 022
as umask. I think this has to be fixed upstream but if this bug is confirmed,
i think users need to be aware of this problem and use workaround if needed.
Thanks.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-powerpc
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to fr_FR.UTF-8)
Versions of packages gdm depends on:
ii adduser 3.77 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.13.11 package maintenance system for Deb
ii gksu 1.3.6-1 graphical frontend to su
ii gnome-session 2.10.0-8 The GNOME 2 Session Manager
ii gnome-terminal [x-termina 2.10.0-3 The GNOME 2 terminal emulator appl
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.17-1 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libattr1 2.4.25-1 Extended attribute shared library
ii libbonobo2-0 2.10.1-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.10.1-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.5-7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgconf2-4 2.10.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.5.1-2 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.3-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.10.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.10.2-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.10.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.10.1-5 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.10-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii liborbit2 1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpam-modules 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.79-3 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.79-3 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.2-3 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii librsvg2-2 2.9.5-4 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii libselinux1 1.26-1 SELinux shared libraries
ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System Session Management
ii libwrap0 7.6.dbs-8 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxi6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System Input extension li
ii libxml2 2.6.22-1 GNOME XML library
ii metacity [x-window-manage 1:2.10.3-2 A lightweight GTK2 based Window Ma
ii xbase-clients 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 miscellaneous X clients
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X Window System client libraries m
ii xterm [x-terminal-emulato 6.8.2.dfsg.1-9 X terminal emulator
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-6 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages gdm recommends:
ii dialog 1.0-20051005-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii whiptail 0.51.6-31 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii zenity 2.10.1-1 Display graphical dialog boxes fro
-- debconf information:
gdm/daemon_name: /usr/bin/gdm
* shared/default-x-display-manager: gdm
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