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

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Mittwoch, den 21.04.2021, 17:16 +0100 schrieb Chris Green:
> I have quite a few systems running [x]ubuntu, a mix of 20.04, 20.10
> and maybe others.
> 
> 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?
> 
the default has actually been changed from 21.04 onwards [1] [2] but
that should surely not affect your 20.04/20.10 installs :)

ciao
	oli

[1] 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2020-November/018842.html

[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/adduser/+bug/48734

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