However, the installation instructions state the following:
\begin{verbatim}
-Change the file permissions to allow all users write access to the folder
-you extracted testcms to.
+Change the file permissions to allow all users write access to the
+folder you extracted testcms to.
\end{verbatim}
This implies making the configuration file readable for all users on the
system. This information should not be accessible for any user other than