[WEB4LIB] chmod question

[Thomas Dowling]

At 01:05 PM 3/29/2002, Linda Woods Hyman wrote:
>I asked my Sys Admin to chmod my perl scripts to 755. She keeps making 
>them 775. Does this make any difference in terms of security or 
>functionality of the scripts? Thanks.


755 is readable/writable/executable by you and readable/executable by both 
your group and everyone else.  775 is readable/writable/executable by both 
you and your group, and readable/executable by everyone else.

The only security issue here is whether there are other people in you Unix 
user group whom you don't trust.  In any rational web server setup , the 
user of the server processes (usually "nobody") wouldn't be in a user group 
with any real users, and the server shouldn't be allowing anyone to modify 
scripts through a wide open web interface anyway.


Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu