> > 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
>
> I realize there there is no security concern on a fresh install.  but
> having said that I think that with root's $HOME being 755 and root's
> umask being 022 it could lead to problems.  What reasons are there not to
> set more restrictive default permissions?

to make lame admin that don't look at perms more unsecure :)