umask haivng different value

[vickey_20]

I get different value of umask for root and a normal user???
For root:

umask 
0022

for normal user

umask
0002

[i92guboj]

If you use bash, you can look into the ~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile files for each user, or into /etc/profile. Maybe there's a umask there.

If you use other shell check the man page for your shell of choice to know what the initialization files for this shell are.

[vickey_20]

is there a way to search the contents of the above file without looking into each one of them as I am not sure it may b in which file.

[i92guboj]

You can always use grep.

grep umask /etc/*
#or
grep umask ~/.*

[vickey_20]

I created a new user just to check out the umask value for the same . The o/p obtained is

umask 0002

so I suppose that the umask for normal user is 0002 and for root is 0022

[vickey_20]

Yes it makes perfect sense .

root
umask 0022
File  666-0022= 644= -rw- r-- r--
Dir   777-0022=755= -rwx -r-x r-x

Normal User
File 666-0002=664= -rw -rw -r--
Dir   777-0002=775= -rwx -rwx r-x

The only difference the umask for normal user make is in the 2nd column and it makes perfect sense( again) coz root doesn't have any group where as a normal user can have a group which may need to access and modify the same resource( ie. w)