Permissions on /var/www

[Armindo Silva]

Shouldn't be owned by www-data so apache can write there?

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:06 PM, James Dinkel <jdinkel at gmail.com> wrote:

> 755 owned by root.root
>
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> 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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