Re: Permissions set on php script question

If your web-server is setup to read files with .php extension through PHP engine (it is I guess) than no body from outside (using HTTP) can't read content of original PHP file only the output of that particular script. The only concern you may have is that somebody else on that server can read that file. Eg anybody who can login to server can read all your files with permission set to read on 'other' On May 12, 2008, at 11:37 PM, David Jourard wrote:

Bojan Tesanovic wrote:

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

Thank-you But most web sites are virtually hosted and do not have root access to set this up. Most people just take the package and install with default masks. So again I ask: Are there are any security concerns when the read permission is set on other. ie Couldn't one write a program to remotely read the contents of the file. Wouldn't it be better if the read permission was set for user only and the php engine could run the program as user like one can do for cgi using suEXEC. Again thanks David J.

Bojan Tesanovic http://www.carster.us/