Is it possible to change permission of /etc/hosts from 644 to 600 or 640 in RHEV/RHV Host or Manager?

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Issue

Change permission of /etc/hosts from 644 to 600 or 640 is considered in RHEV/RHV Host or Manager due to security issue. Is it possible? And if changed, is there any side effects on RHEV/RHV Host and Manager?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.x
  • Red Hat Virtualization 4

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