diff --git a/etc/default/jenkins b/etc/default/jenkins
index d3fdb8f1a62303bda8e68323406a48e3c5348751..744fca6189a4557542f33d2f9c0ede14692def53 100644
--- a/etc/default/jenkins
+++ b/etc/default/jenkins
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ MAXOPENFILES=8192
 # set the umask to control permission bits of files that Jenkins creates.
 #   027 makes files read-only for group and inaccessible for others. comment this out to inherit setting
 #   (as of Ubuntu 12.04, by default umask comes from pam_umask(8) and /etc/login.defs
-UMASK=027
+UMASK=022
 
 # port for HTTP connector (default 8080; disable with -1)
 HTTP_PORT=8080