Date:        Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:45:05 +0100
    From:        Miroslav Urbanek <m.urbanek@sh.cvut.cz>
    Message-ID:  <20030214104505.GA246@etc.sh.cvut.cz>

  | why has /root directory permissions 0755 after installation? it is correct,
  | that anybody can read root's files?

"root" isn't intended to be a user, and so should have no files of
note - the stuff that is in /root is just sufficient environment setup
for the (rare) occasions when root actually needs to log in.  There
should be no reason for most of that to be protected - anything that
needs it can be individually handled (or you can just change the
permissions on the directory if you want to).

kre