Permissions on /var/www

[James Dinkel]

755 owned by root.root

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Michael S. Mason <midnitemac at me.com> wrote:

> Hello Community Team:
>
> What is the default permissions for /var/www (?)
>
> Should this be set to any of the following:
>
> 775= user can exec, read and write, group can exec read and write, and
> all other users can read and execute.
> 755= same as above, but group can only read and exec.
>
> 777= all users on your machine can do anything in files/dirs set with
> this acl. Remember, even if you are the only physical user on the
> machine, all processes (apache, ftpd, postfix, etc) are users on your
> machine and will be able to do bad stuff if 1) the code is buggy and
> happens to try to delete everything, or 2) if the process gets owned
> by evil hacker eddie.
>
> Thanks!
> Michael
>
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