#1112032 plasma-workspace: changed umask is not honored

Package:
plasma-workspace
Source:
plasma-workspace
Description:
Plasma Workspace for KF5
Submitter:
Bob Rosbag
Date:
2025-08-25 12:03:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1112032#5
Date:
2025-08-25 12:00:45 UTC
From:
To:
Dear Maintainer,

Since Trixie the default umask has changed from 022 to 002.
Changing the umask in /etc/profile and /etc/login.defs works mostly except for
applications started from plasma.

I tried changing the umask for plasma here without success:

/etc/login.defs
/etc/profile
/etc/pam.d/common-session
/etc/pam.d/common-session-noninteractive
/etc/pam.d/systemd-user
/etc/pam.d/login
/etc/sddm.conf.d
/etc/systemd/system/user@.service.d/override.conf
/etc/systemd/user/plasma-plasmashell.service.d/override.conf
~/.config/plasma-workspace/env/umask.sh

Overriding plasmashell with /etc/systemd/user/plasma-
plasmashell.service.d/override.conf does give "UMask=0022" but it is not
honored when creating new files in dolphin or by touch in konsole or even in
xfce4-terminal started in plasma.