On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 12:04:38AM +0100, Ansgar wrote:
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.
Not really--that requires ACL support, and ACL management tends to be a PITA for actual people.
It would only affect permissions of files that should intentionally be group-readable, not all files created anywhere.
With usergroups, group-readable is a no-op unless you've done something to change the group.