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Hi @l0b0 the $HOME/.bashrc and $HOME/.profile were copied from my Arch Linux running on my netbook. It is just my long time security best practice (10+ years).
I don't think the default value 0022 is good anyway. 0027 is ONLY moderate, which denies w for group and rwx for others.
$ umask
0027
$ umask -S
u=rwx,g=rx,o=
In short, this will ensure no other users have read/write/execute access to the files/directories created by $USER.
By using $HOME/.profile it overrides at per user level, feel free to change it ;-D
On my host, where I to the best of my knowledge have never changed the umask:
On the Arch Linux Vagrant box:
Why is this more restrictive than normal?
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