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How can I set the default umask for Arch Linux. I need 0022 but the default is 0027 on my system. I checked etc/profile/ and it says 

umask 0022

But somewhere another value for umask gets set and I can't find it. Any suggestions where the 0027 umask could be set or where I can override it?

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  • Did you check the obvious places, like .bashrc in your own directory, or /etc/bashrc?
    – MariusMatutiae
    Commented Mar 1, 2017 at 12:28
  • Yes, /etc/bashrc is empty. Just now I found out that if I add umask 0022 to ~/.bashrc I can overwrite the default. But I still don't know why it defaults to 0027.
    – MrLeeh
    Commented Mar 1, 2017 at 12:35
  • Did you try /etc/fstab?
    – MariusMatutiae
    Commented Mar 1, 2017 at 13:05
  • @MariusMatutiae There is no umask entry in my /etc/fstab
    – MrLeeh
    Commented Mar 1, 2017 at 13:24

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I finally found the umask 027 statement in my ~/.profile file. Commenting it and uncomment umask 022 fixed it.

~/.profile

# ~/.profile: executed by the command interpreter for login shells.
# This file is not read by bash(1), if ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bash_login
# exists.
# see /usr/share/doc/bash/examples/startup-files for examples.
# the files are located in the bash-doc package.

# the default umask is set in /etc/profile; for setting the umask
# for ssh logins, install and configure the libpam-umask package.
umask 022
# umask 027
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