Umask is wrong running unix command as current console user?

ARD3.1 Admin on intel mac, Clients all v 3.1 PPCs
If I ssh to a remote machine or use ARD Unix command as the logged-in console user joeuser and enter 'touch /myfile' the permissions are
-rw-r--r-- 1 joeuser admin 0 Apr 27 10:40 myfile
but if i am directly on the machine and do it the result is
-rw-rw-r-- 1 joeuser admin 0 Apr 27 10:42 myfile
Is this expected behavior? How about the group membership? If I execute the same commands in ~/ the results are:
-rw-r--r-- 1 joeuser av 0 Apr 27 10:40 myfile
and again when i am directly on the machine and do it the result is
-rw-rw-r-- 1 joeuser av 0 Apr 27 10:42 myfile
where av is the group as defined in netinfo.
the NSUmask value in /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences.plist was set to integer 2 in all cases on the client machines.
I'm new to this board, so my apologies if this question belongs in a different one.

Please discard the above msg i got a solution by just adding file.delete
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