Private/etc/authorization permissions changed?

I thought the unix board may be a good place to get an answer to this question:
If I run "repair permissions", I always seem to get a message like the following (forgive me if it's not quite right in the file name, I'm doing this from memory)
permissions corrected on private/etc/authorization group is 80, should be 0
The reason I ask is that disk utility will repair it, but if I run it a day or so later, the error returns and must get corrected again. Just curious why this keeps getting reset and also curious as to what exactly it is referring to, i.e., authorization of what?
Any info would be greatly appreciated.

Hi fishin,
   That's not really a problem. It's doubtless a "spurious error", as discussed by Michael Conniff in Spurious Permissions errors in Mac OS X 10.2. I think you got the group membership backwards. The file is installed with group "admin", which is doubtless a mistake on Apple's part. The group should certainly be "wheel" and some process setting that correctly. Let it do so and don't worry about it.
Gary
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