On Sun, 12 Aug 2007, Paul Lenz wrote: > After "chmod 777" the logfile,
Bad practice. Baaaaad practice. Please don't develop the habit of reflexively "chmod 777"ing things. I dealt with that from my firm's support department for five years and I still have the twitch. (1) It completely turns off security. (2) It marks as executable a file that is not executable. If you need a specific user to read that file, then change the ownership of that file to that user and "chmod u+r" it. If you need it to be readable but not writable by a subset of your users, then change the group and "chmod g=r" it; or "chmod +r" it if you don't care who reads it. But you will eventually regret developing the habit of hitting files with "chmod 777" when they don't cooperate. This hot-button moment brought to you by the letter "Q". -- John Hardin KA7OHZ http://www.impsec.org/~jhardin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] FALaholic #11174 pgpk -a [EMAIL PROTECTED] key: 0xB8732E79 -- 2D8C 34F4 6411 F507 136C AF76 D822 E6E6 B873 2E79 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- It's easy to be noble with other people's money. -- John McKay, _The Welfare State: No Mercy for the Middle Class_ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 days until The 62nd anniversary of the end of World War II
