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[Tony Facca]

 >On three different Irises in three different groups (checked within the last
 >few minutes), / was world-writable (apparently shipped as such).  Not funny.

>> There was a problem on the 3000's with the tar command, whereby a 'tar x'
>> would always restore directories with mode 777 regardless of umask and

I have seen this on the 3000's as well.  I believe they were shipped that way
and (I'm not positive but..) I think each time the OS was revised I had to 
reset the permission on / after installation.
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