[Nix-dev] Umask Setting in NixOS

[Vladimír Čunát]

On 06/22/2016 04:21 PM, Roger Qiu wrote:
> In a new installation of NixOS, the umask command gives me back `022`. I
> was wondering where is this being set? The `/etc/login.defs` say `UMASK
> 077` but that doesn't match what the command is giving.

Maybe there's nothing in NixOS that effectively sets a default. From
"man 2 umask":
> The typical default value for the process umask is S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH
(octal 022).

--Vladimir


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