images directory permission q

dakruhm · **Joined:** Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:53 am **Posts:** 4

Hi everyone,

There's a group agreement that permissions be set as follows:

Code:

directories 755
files 644

The issue becomes that the daily-admin can't upload her photos.

If the perms are adjusted for the images dir to:

Code:

images/ -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;

The daily-admin can upload but doesn't this mean that anyone from the web could potentially write to the dir as well?

dynamicnet · **Joined:** Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:42 pm **Posts:** 483

Greetings:

The file and directory permissions (i.e. 644, 755, etc.) are not directly tied to Joomla user's; they refer directly to the Web site user and potentially the user/group of the web server.

777 permissions means anyone can access.

Thank you.

dakruhm · **Joined:** Thu Dec 18, 2008 2:53 am **Posts:** 4

Thanks for replying.

Yes, I understand that.

Hopefully I can clarify. If the images dir is:

Code:

drwxrwxr-x (775) foo_owner web_group images

Doesn't this mean that anyone from the web_group could potentially write to the images directory as well since any web_visitor would be part of the web_group on the box?

dynamicnet · **Joined:** Wed Aug 05, 2009 1:42 pm **Posts:** 483

Greetings:

Yes, anyone from webgrup could write to the image directory.

Thank you.

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