755 owned by root.root <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Michael S. Mason <<a href="mailto:midnitemac@me.com">midnitemac@me.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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 -- ubuntu-server mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server</a> More info: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam</a> </blockquote></div>