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Old October 8th, 2004, 11:58 AM
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chmod permissions on a website

could visitors to a website still write to files on the webserver if the chmod value of a php file is 775?

775 being rwx rwx r-x

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could visitors to a website still write to files on the webserver if the chmod value of a php file is 775?

775 being rwx rwx r-x


Since all file access is done with the permissions of the web server itself, as long as the web server has the appropriate rights any 'visitor' can do what they like.
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