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> I just noticed that the default permissions on /root are 755 root.wheel.
> on top of that the default umask for the default shell is 022.  That
> seems like a potential security concern.  root account is used for
> administration and shouldn't be world readable.  Any thoughts from the
> masses?
>
chmod 700 /root

by default there's no security concern, there's no secret files in /root
by defaults, if you wan't to put them here, chmod