We will be glad to work with you to manage group memberships. We realize that this might not be ideal for all situations. If you require world write please contact us. This will make our job of monitoring this aspect of system security much easier. This is a special case because those who can make changes in your home directory can do so many things to destroy the integrity of your account.
Additional restrictions apply to .netrc , .rhosts , and .Xauthority files.
ARSC policies for these environment files follow the DOT file table below. When ftp opens a connection to a specified remote machine, it checks for this file in the user's home directory on the machine initiating the file transfer. If someone could read this file, they could obtain a key and circumvent the security provided by xauth. Due to the security considerations discussed below, and until further notice, ARSC is disallowing the execution of Java and related code downloaded from the Internet. The SGI system copy of Netscape has had the world execute permissions of the associated Java interpreter removed.