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  • +1 but i like to mention tiger didnt pick up my root being readable and it definately did not pick up /root/.my.cnf being readable. which had my root mysql password. Commented Mar 10, 2011 at 3:18
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    fair enough, but /root being world-readable isn't necessarily by itself a security problem, and if you create a file yourself and put sensitive data in it, you really need to take responsibility for locking it down yourself. You can, of course, edit tiger's rules for future checks/deployments, which is something I do. Commented Mar 10, 2011 at 5:33