On Mon, Apr 04, 2016 at 06:58:39AM +0000, Boruch Baum wrote:

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>
> I'm getting a bit uncomfortable about starting this thread, because upon
> reflection, it seems that one consequence of setting the system-wide may
> be that the 027 umask will end up having some system account creating a
> file that should be world-readable or world-executable, but because of
> the umask, it now would not be, and so would break stuff. My intent was
> to protect data of one user from other users, which could be done by
> making the change in .profile or even in the default .bashrc.
>

I was actually waiting for somebody to realise this before answering
your email. In a "Universal OS" there is much more than the
preferences of single specific users, or specific applications, or
specific environments. There is the necessity to accommodate a huge
number of different scenarios and use cases. In short, that's why you
have the umask set by default to 022. Any user can change this
behaviour to a more restrictive one, if they need so.

My2Cents

KatolaZ

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