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[Jason Nicholls]

G'day,

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 07:04:39PM +0800, Colin Muller wrote:
> Matt Kemner wrote:
> 
> > You should _never_ set file permissions to 777
> > 
> > unless you don't mind everybody being able to replace them with whatever
> > they like
> 
> Actually, it's a fairly standard part of testing when things aren't
> working as expected on a Web site. But they should certainly be changed
> back afterwards.

That's still a bad idea. If you're testing for a web site, why would it need
write access. For testing try (at the worst):

	755 (directories)
	644 (files).

And work from there.

Later,

Jason Nicholls
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