Why such "loose" permissions?

[Net Llama!]

On Thu, 11 Dec 2003, Michael Hipp wrote:
> Why are users files, by default, created with such loose permissions?
>
> Here's the typical perms automatically given to a new file created in my
> $HOME directory:
>
> -rw-r--r--    1 michael  michael         2 Dec 11 09:12 testfile.txt
>
> For reasons unknown (to me), often the perms end up being even worse:
> -rw-rw-r--
>
> Is there some good reason to have the default permissions so loose?
>
> This is a RH9 box, if it matters. I've noticed this behavior on every
> box I've loaded lately, even those configured as a "server". Is this a
> RH thing, or are others distros similar?

As for why, i can't say, although i think that's just the default umask
that Redhat sets.  You can certainly change it in /etc/profile, or
somewhere like that.

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