On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 07:52:07 +1000
Cameron Simpson <cs(a)zip.com.au> wrote:
Dunno. I'm fairly private and like to end my umask in a 7
normally.
Usually discussions revolve around the group bits.
Normally you wouldn't share membership of your personal group - this
arranges that 027 (or the like) in your home directory is essentially
private. Instead, one makes other groups for shared work.
So your 027 is effectively 077 because of your policy.
For example, my partner and I have a group for "us"; both
our
personal accounts are in it (so it is a secondary group membership);
we have a shared third account (for stuff to do with home and so on);
its group has both our individual accounts as members, giving both of
us read/write to it.
This sounds like a good way to deal with this issue: everything shared
is explicitly declared and separated.
After all the input, I think I'll stick with my 077, even though it
really has no effect in my situation; it does no harm either. And these
permissions probably have no effect for most Fedora users, but I still
think it should default to 077; opt in to sharing rather than opt out.
But I won't lose any sleep over it.