This is a bug in every GNOME application that uses systemctl --user to start itself. There is currently no sane fix because systemd is missing a feature of upstart, umask inheritance. GNOME could abuse systemd's instantiated services feature to pass the umask through this but this would be far from ideal.
A workaround for those of us that need a solution now is to place [Service] UMask=<umask value> in $HOME/.config/systemd/user/gnome-terminal-server.service.d/umask.conf for an individual user or in /etc/systemd/user/gnome-terminal-server.service.d/umask.conf for all users. This will set the umask only for gnome-terminal. To get most services set an override for dbus.service as well. However, there are quite a few services that are not directly launched by dbus (like gnome-terminal-server) and need their own overrides. A list of these can be obtained by: $ grep -rhoP '(?<=SystemdService=).*' /usr/share/dbus-1/services The only sane way I have come up with to deal with this is to create a single umask.conf and add a symlink to it from the <service>.serivce.d/umask.conf overide for each service found above (as well as dbus). In this way, only two files must be edited to set system default umask, /etc/login.defs and umask.conf. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1685754 Title: gnome-terminal unduly forces umask=0022 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gedit/+bug/1685754/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
