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saline · 05-22-2003, 01:04 AM

I just wrote a perl script that reads from text files and writes to text files within a directory. This script is accessed and interacted with via a webpage. So my question is what are the minimum permissions I need on the directory in order to get things to work properly. I feel uncomfortable using 777 but at the same time it makes sense, and works. Is there another set of permissions I could use that might keep things somehow more secure?

Am I misunderstanding how permissions work or am I just being paranoid?

05-22-2003, 01:04 AM	#1 (permalink)
saline I am red. Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Cleveland, OH Posts: 139	permissions I just wrote a perl script that reads from text files and writes to text files within a directory. This script is accessed and interacted with via a webpage. So my question is what are the minimum permissions I need on the directory in order to get things to work properly. I feel uncomfortable using 777 but at the same time it makes sense, and works. Is there another set of permissions I could use that might keep things somehow more secure? Am I misunderstanding how permissions work or am I just being paranoid? __________________ http://home.cwru.edu/~cak19 It's my homepage with odd little bits of javascript.