Re: libpam_umask setup

* From: Bug <recvfrom@xxxxxxxxx>
But when I login in, I still get umask 022. What step am I missing?

I do not use pam_umask , but:

(1) /usr/share/doc/libpam-umask/README says:

If a user has a .pam_umask
in his home directory, the contents will be used to set the umask.

(2) Linkname: pam_umask(8) - Linux man page
URL: http://linux.die.net/man/8/pam_umask
says

The PAM module tries to get the umask value from the following places in the following
order:
* umask= argument
* umask= entry of the users GECOS field
* pri= entry of the users GECOS field
* ulimit= entry of the users GECOS field
* UMASK= entry from /etc/default/login
* UMASK entry from /etc/login.defs

It also speaks about a debug option.

Looking at the sources (apt-get source libpam-umask), I dubt that the
man page applies to the debian version of libpam-umask, but a look at
the above files (/etc/passwd) might be worthy.

(3) perhaps a

# strace -f -o /tmp/login.strace.log login -f user

might help


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