While the system administrator can establish secure permissions for users home directories, the users can easily override these. Rationale: Group or world-writable user home directories may enable malicious users to steal or modify other users data or to gain another user's system privileges. Fix: Making global modifications to user home directories without alerting the user community can result in unexpected outages and unhappy users. Therefore, it is recommended that a monitoring policy be established to report user file permissions and determine the action to be taken in accordance with site policy.

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Making global modifications to user home directories without alerting the user community can result in unexpected outages and unhappy users. Therefore, it is recommended that a monitoring policy be established to report user file permissions and determine the action to be taken in accordance with site policy.