On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 03:17:42PM +0000, Stephane Chazelas wrote: > I can think of several ways to address it: > > 1- do nothing and blame the user as the user explicitly asked > for files to be unreadable
This one gets my vote. That umask is just entirely wrong. Did the user really mean 0377 by chance? (Even then, what was the objective? Any umask that includes owner bits is just not rational.)
