> I have the following two lines at the end of /etc/pam.d/login > and /etc/pam.d/ssh and /etc/pam.d/kdm > > # set default umask > session optional pam_umask.so umask=002 > > hth, Hi Kevin, Thanks for this. Yes this did help and it's now working for konqueror and konsole. However, it's not working for kmail and mozilla firefox. :-( Any ideas how to get it to work for those apps as well? Regards Rishi ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.