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
