Where does umask get set at system startup? Mine seems to have changed to 0002 recently
Chris Green
cl at isbd.net
Wed Apr 21 20:31:48 UTC 2021
On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 08:08:48PM +0100, Peter Flynn wrote:
>
>
> On 21/04/2021 17:16, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have quite a few systems running [x]ubuntu, a mix of 20.04, 20.10
> > and maybe others.
> >
> > The default umask always used to be 0022 but all my systems now have
> > it set to 0002. I can't see where it's set anywhere in /etc, can
> > anyone tell me how it gets set and why (if it has) the default has
> > been changed from 0022 to 0002?
>
> I think a user's personal umask is set in ~/.profile and that gets set up
> from the master copy in /etc/skel/.profile
>
There's no umask settings there on my system.
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Chris Green
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