Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC bindist permissions (Was: [ANNOUNCE] GHC 9.4.1-rc1 is now available)

On Mon, 8 Aug 2022, Brandon Allbery wrote:

I think umask addresses a different issue than "unprivileged user". In any case, yes, 077 is fairly uncommon; if you have that much need for privacy then perhaps you should not be using the system in the first place.

Are you the only user on the machine?