On Sun, Jun 18, 2017 at 01:24:17PM -0700, stan wrote:
I recently became aware that the default umask for Fedora is 022
when
it caused problems for me that I had a different umask. This seems like
an anachronism, a relic of a kinder, gentler time, when the computing
atmosphere was more collegiate. Is it really appropriate that new
files be created for a user with permissions of rwxr-xr-x in today's
security atmosphere?
Minor correction, a umask 022 will set execute on new directories
(drwxr-xr-x), but not new files. They would be -rw-r--r--.
I set my umask to 077, so that no one can access anything.
I'm interested in other people's opinions, especially those arguing in
favor of continuing to have a umask of 022. Am I overlooking something?
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