umask

umask in Ubuntu Oneiric

joar@jupiter:~$ umask
0002
joar@jupiter:~$ 

I wonder why they’ve changed umask from 0022 to 0002 in Ubuntu 11.10 .
Look like yet an other ‘make linux userfriendly’ apporach http://www.mail-archive.com/ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com/msg00628.html
Personally I’m not a fan of files being group writeable when i create them:

joar@jupiter:~$ tail -1 .bashrc 
umask 0022
joar@jupiter:~$ bash
joar@jupiter:~$ umask
0022
joar@jupiter:~$