Created attachment 876165 [details]
error/warning from grapical version of yast user module

From the pam_umask man page:

The PAM module tries to get the umask value from the following places in the following order:

       •   umask= entry in the user's GECOS field

       •   umask= argument

       •   UMASK= entry from /etc/login.defs

       •   UMASK= entry from /etc/default/login

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Unfortunately, gnome (and perhaps other desktop environments) does not respect the umask set in a user's ".profile".  Thus, the only way to reliably set a umask for a specific user is to utilize the 5th GECOS field.

The yast "users" module does not recognize this as a valid use of GECOS.

I set the umask for user "ox" using "/usr/bin/chfn".

root@orca# grep ^ox /etc/passwd
ox:x:1000:1000:Charles Wight,,,,UMASK=077:/home/ox:/bin/bash

This works as expected from the pam documentation and is respected by gnome sessions.