Where does umask get set at system startup? Mine seems to have changed to 0002 recently

Oliver Grawert ogra at ubuntu.com
Thu Apr 22 12:28:05 UTC 2021


hi,
Am Donnerstag, den 22.04.2021, 13:51 +0200 schrieb Tom H:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 10:31 PM Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com>
> t that should surely not affect your 20.04/20.10 installs :)
> > 
> > [1]
> > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2020-November/018842.html
> > 
> > [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adduser/+bug/48734
> 
> This bug/patch is about changing "DIR_MODE=0755" to "DIR_MODE=0750"
> in
> "/etc/adduser.conf".
> 
> Does it change the umask? Or does it only change the mode of
> "/home/<user>"? Anyway, if it does change the umask, it would be to
> "027" not to "002".
> 
i think umask was mentioned/discussed in the according discourse post
[1], but yeah, it was 027 ...

ciao
	oli

[1] 
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/private-home-directories-for-ubuntu-21-04-onwards/19533
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