World writable bit on UNIX

[admin]

I have DataStage 4.1 running on Sun Solaris 8. Since root must install DataStage, many files are owned by root with other as the group. My users are in a group DBA. Many files in the project directory and ardent home have the world writable bit on. This is driving my security team nuts. Can I change the files owned by root to group DBA and remove the world write bit? Is there something else I should do instead? What have other installations done? I have heard that this is going to be fixed in a future release. Is this true?

Thanks for the help,

David Lathan
Data Warehouse
Premier Healthcare Informatics
704.733.5020
David_Lathan@Premierinc.com



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