While the system administrator can establish secure permissions for users "dot" files, the users can easily override these. Rationale: Group or world-writable user configuration files may enable malicious users to steal or modify other user's data or to gain another user's system privileges. Fix: Making global modifications to users files 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 dot files and determine the action to be taken in accordance with site policy.

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Making global modifications to user s files 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 dot files and determine the action to be taken in accordance with site policy.