Resolve umask not being honored by Insights Client

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An administrator wanted to run the insights-client service with a specific umask, different from the default value for root 0022, to make files created by the service not readable by regular users. To this end, they execute the following commands:

# umask 0027
# insights-client

Executing these command...

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