The r for other means that you have not accomplished your goal.  It makes
no sense to have group with less permission that other, so the script is
warning of a misconfiguration.

On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:51:24AM -0500, Mikhail T. wrote:
> On 23.12.2012 03:05, Charlie Root wrote:
> > Checking negative group permissions:
> >   8903027 -rw--w-r--  1 mi    www    794277 Oct 23 07:47:45 2007 
> > /home/mi/public_html/syb/order/download.log
> Hello!
> 
> The above started to appear in the daily security run output after I 
> upgraded to 9.1. I don't understand, what this check is doing or why the 
> above file is reported -- what's abnormal (warning-worthy) about 
> allowing the web-server to write to, but not read a file? I did it on 
> purpose to keep all files associated with a project together, but 
> without inadvertently serving some of them...
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