I would like to set the sytem wide umask value so that all users are affected without having to set the umask value in ~/.bashrc for each user. I read that this can be set in /etc/profile and /etc/bashrc but both files have warnings not to edit them.
How can i properly set a umask value for all my users in NIxos declaratively?
Is environment.extraInit = "umask 0077"; the proper way to do it or does it have unintended side-effects?
Like on any other Linux distribution with the exception that you don’t write it into /etc or so but into the config.
I am guessing this would be done via pam but I am not sure.
This was actually something I stumbled upon when I was new to Nix. I used to do this in my old distro by changing the /etc/login.defs file, as it allows setting umask. I asked a question here on same topic for reference
I saw that thread, thank you. But the outcome was inconclusive to me.
Setting environment.extraInit = "umask 0077"; seems to work for me so if that has no downsides i’m happy with that.