On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 7:25 PM, Ian Jackson wrote: > The appropriate default umask is 002 if the user's primary group is > named after the user, or 022 otherwise. AFAICT, neither of these achieve what the initiator of the thread wants to achieve; no read access by other users to one's files on multi-user systems by default. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise