On 22-Oct-98, 11:02 (CDT), Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> 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