Re: Seeking consensus for some changes in adduser

[Ansgar <ansgar@43-1.org>]

On Wed, 2022-03-09 at 17:29 -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
> Those are actually unrelated--the big reason for the more permissive 
> umask is to allow people to seamlessly work with other people in a
> group, especially within setgid shared directories. Those shared 
> directories can be anywhere, and are likely *not* in a single user's 
> home.

Setting a default ACL on project directories seems a technical better
solution for this problem. It would only affect permissions of files
that should intentionally be group-readable, not all files created
anywhere.

Ansgar