Re: Minimalist permissions

From:	Ugo Bellavance	Date:	Wed, 16 Feb 2005 15:30:33 +0000
Subject:	Re: Minimalist permissions
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Jason Wong wrote:

On Saturday 12 February 2005 11:28, Ugo Bellavance wrote:
    Please forgive me if this specific question has already been
addressed, but I'm doing tests to figure out what are the minimal permissions I can give on my files and folders for a PHP application and I just can't find it (even by searching this list). Feel free to redirect me to existing documentation that I woule have missed, if needed.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=105793487024873&w=2

Thanks, so two questions remain obscure: If the needed permissions for standard PHP files and directories are 'r' on files and 'r-x' on directories, how can I set my umask so that files and directories are always created as such? I looked up 'man umask' and it seems to treat files and directories the same way. Maybe that is impossible, but I logged in via FTP to a server of a web hosting company, and it implements just this: creates directories as rwxr-xr-x and files as rw-r--r--.

    Another thing... how should I configure ownership on the files? root as owner, apache as group and no permissions for others?