We have a problem whereby Nautilus is not using the umask setting defined by the user (e.g. when creating directories via the the ‘Places’
menu). The umask used by Nautilus is 022, but the shell umask (in our case) is set to 002

A quick search seems to suggest that this a common problem, and various methods are suggested to ‘fix’ this – the only way that appears to work on CentOS 7 is to add ‘UMask 002’ to the ‘[Service]’ section via a unit file snippet in /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service.d/ – this works OK – but it makes the umask a global setting for all users, when theoretically, different users may want to have different umask settings

Does anyone know the ‘proper’ way to get Nautilus to use a user’s own umask setting ?

Thanks

James Pearson