Re: Security Question, re directory permissions

From: Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 20:10:58 +0000
Subject: Re: Security Question, re directory permissions
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On 5/18/07, Al <news@ridersite.org> wrote:
How can they write or edit files there without having ftp access or the site's file manager?
SSH access? Telnet maybe? PHP script? CGI script? ASP script? There are a lot of possible ways someone can write there. Tijnema
Tijnema ! wrote: On 5/18/07, Al <news@ridersite.org> wrote:
I'm on a shared Linux host and have been wondering about security and directory "other" ["world"] permissions. The defaults are 755. The 'others' [world] can read them only. Is there a security hole if a dir on the doc root if a directory has permissions 757? If there is a security problem, what is it? Thanks...
If you have a directory with 757 permissions, "world" can create new files there. And if you give files 757 (or 646) permissions, then "world" can edit that file. So if you have a doc dir, you probably don't want extra files there. It's not really a security problem, but if somebody notices it, he might write files there. Tijnema -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php


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