On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 18:35:58 +0200
Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday 04 July 2008, Florian Philipp wrote:
> 
> > I've just set the umask 0007 in /etc/profile. With the rule that
> > every user has his own primary group (as it is default), this is
> > sufficient for my needs.
> 
> Hmmm. That gives permissions:
> 
> rw-rw----
> 
> on every single new file created by every single user by default.
> 
> If you are happy with that, so be it. I would not be happy with
> that :-)
> 
> 

Since every user has another primary group this doesn't cause problems.
Only on folders with SETGID where the group is changed by design this
umask causes other users to have write and read permissions and that's
what I wanted in the first place.