Why such "loose" permissions?

[M.W. Chang]

I could comprehend that, but I don't quite know which file actually set
the umask: /etc/profile or /etc/config.d/shells/bashrc? Anyway, for my
COL 3.1, I need to modify the umask in /etc/config.d/shells/bashrc, not
/etc/profile. the bashrc made the last touch. I have set it to 007
(which disable world privilege).

Net Llama! wrote:
> umask uses inverted numbering from chmod.  Thus, 'chmod 777' would be the
> same as a umask of '000'.  'chmod 444' would be a umask of '333'.
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