[off-topic] Where does umask get set at system startup? Mine seems to have changed to 0002 recently

[Tom H]

On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 11:15 AM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 10:42:27 +0200, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> Most Linux systems are multi-user systems. There may be 10s of
>> thousands of users with single-user systems on the various
>> distribution mailing lists, but there are 10s (if not 100s) of
>> millions of multi-user systems in corporations and organisations
>> across the world.
>
> Are you sure? Counter-thesis: The thousands of millions of
> multi-user servers run a BSD and desktop clients access the
> multi-user BSD servers by single-user Linux machines, as well as
> Windows and Apple machines. Or an even darker counter-thesis:
> Windows multi-user systems and servers rule the world, while Apple,
> BSD and Linux is mostly used for single-user desktop machines, smart
> phones, tablets etc. ... Are there any valid statistics available?

I was simply saying that there are far more multi-user Linux servers
than there are single-user Linux systems. It's probably untrue if you
take Android phones and tablets into account, but I don't really think
of my Android devices as Linux devices because I'm firewalled away
from the system on them. How many other OSes are in use is irrelevant
to my email.