On 22-Oct-98, 11:02 (CDT), Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> Why don't you think root umask and root PATH are critical
>  parts of system security? Oh, man, the explouts possible when these
>  are not set to good values ...

Oh sure, you're right about that. I was thinking of it a different way:
if they were put in /etc/profile, then anybody could see them, and my
contention was *that* was not in any way a security issue.

Steve

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