Where does umask get set at system startup? Mine seems to have? changed to 0002 recently

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 21 Apr 2021 20:08:48 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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> On 21/04/2021 17:16, Chris Green wrote:
> > I have quite a few systems running [x]ubuntu, a mix of 20.04, 20.10
> > and maybe others.
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> > The default umask always used to be 0022 but all my systems now have
> > it set to 0002.  I can't see where it's set anywhere in /etc, can
> > anyone tell me how it gets set and why (if it has) the default has
> > been changed from 0022 to 0002?
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> I think a user's personal umask is set in ~/.profile and that gets set 
> up from the master copy in /etc/skel/.profile

Also:

/etc/profile
and
/etc/profile.d/


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> Peter
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