> > > Why is rc.conf readable by world?!
> > 
> > Why not?
> 
> What reason would the rest of the "world" have to read rc.conf?  It could
> only create a possible security risk.

This is shabby reasoning.  rc.conf contains public system configuration 
data, which may need to be consumed by non-root processes.

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