Re: Permissions set on php script question

Heh you are really new to Linux permissions on linux are set per user/group/other bases so for most secure set permissions to read only for web-server user so chown 'webserveruser' file.php chmod 400 file.php make sure you have root access at server so you can change that file or make a group for web-server as your group and set read permissions on group level chmod 440 file.php On May 12, 2008, at 4:45 PM, David Jourard wrote:

Hi, I'm very new to php. One thing I noticed in order to run the php program (on a linux server) I need to set the read permission for Other. In this program I'll have the MySQL credentials defined. Are there are any security concerns when the read permission is set like this. Wouldn't it be better if the permission was set for user only and the php engine could run the program as user like one can do for cgi using suEXEC. Couldn't one write a program to remotely read the contents of the file. Thank-you David J. --PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

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