.profile setting

Would like to know what is the right way to set /etc/profile. Currently,
our settings are owned by bin, a group of general users, and read and
exectue by this group. In other reading, they suggested that the file
should be only owned by root, and read/write only by root. Please comment.
Thanks.



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