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

[Peter Flynn]

On 24/04/2021 10:14, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users 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? 

No-one knows.

> 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.

More likely the back-end Linux servers are access by single-user Windows
and some Macs, with very few single-user Linux systems.

> 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. ...

There are certainly more Linux *web* servers than Windows web servers (
several surveys have pointed this out year after year). But the number
of Windows SQLServer back-ends is also very large IMNSHO.

> Are there any valid statistics available?

No. It's all guesswork and expert judgment.

Peter