[zerocrates]

It being readable is the default configuration most places, after all the purpose is to call it from a non-privileged user. But I could see it being made non-readable since its use is discouraged nowadays... though then I'd expect sudo to be readable as an alternative.

[rkeene2]

My `sudo` is also not readable. Files/directories don't need to be readable to be executed. I can still use `su` and `sudo`.

[zerocrates]

Oh yeah, duh.

Still every machine I've looked at, and I've since looked at a couple more, has it r-x for world.