How do I tell sudo to write files with a umask of 0022?

Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion) finally has a version of sudo that supports umask_override. For the record, this works for me:

Defaults umask_override
Defaults umask=0022

I ended up adding the following to my .bashrc configuration script:

# Mimic old behavior of `sudo` on OS X Snow Leopard
sudo() {
    old=$(umask)
    umask 0022
    command sudo "$@"
    umask $old
}

how about:

sudo22() {
   local UMASK=`umask`;
   umask 22;
   sudo "$@";
   umask $UMASK
}

With your .bashrc

if [[ $EUID -eq 0 ]]; then
   umask 0022
else
   umask 0077
fi

For the record: the current version of sudo as a new option 'umask_override', which should prevent the umask's from being merged, so you should be able to lower the umask, too. Sadly, Mac OS X 10.6.6 does not seem to sport this version of sudo ...

How do I tell sudo to write files with a umask of 0022?

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