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Jason R Mastaler <jason@4b.org> writes:

> Because users are often careless, and their careless actions can
> result in dire consequences.

Yes... 

> It's more of a courtesy and security safegaurd than a censor.
> 
> Think of it another way.  When would anyone ever _not_ want 
> permissions of 600 on a plaintext file containing passwords?

Well, I can't think of why anyone would leave the home directory world
writable, but I'm certainly not going to check whether the user has
done so or not.  Etc.

But that's something that rarely happens, while many users do leave
.rhosts (etc.) world readable by mistake, so it is (perhaps)
reasonable to warn them about what they have done.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen