Sorry, to clarify, when you run a command as sudo that creates files, it
bases the permissions of these new files on the umask you have set for
your current user (not the umask used by root).
Therefore, on my user account I have the umask set to 0077 which ensures
that by default all new files I create are only readable by my user. So
if I do `sudo touch /tmp/example` that file will be similarly created
with rw only for my user.
The bug here is that add-apt-repository cannot rely on the files it
creates having a particular set of permissions, as they rely on whatever
the user has set their umask to, and so it should have an additional
chmod step that ensures the file is readable by all
** Changed in: software-properties (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => New
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add-apt-repository creates read-only sources.list
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/399709
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