Setting a umask

[Raphaël Berbain]

* Serg B.:

> Also while on the topic, is there a setting that I need to edit to apply
> default permissions to files and directories that are being created.
>
> I know that a umask can be set from $HOME/.bashrc but want to know if
> there are any global files that do that.

Install the libpam-umask package.  Read /usr/share/doc/libpam-umask/README
and adapt to taste.