Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 23:00:08 -0600 From: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." <kdk@daleco.biz> To: How Can ThisBe <howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File permission question Message-ID: <3FB5B2D8.6020503@daleco.biz> In-Reply-To: <BAY7-F104XR5lK06Ye200009a15@hotmail.com> References: <BAY7-F104XR5lK06Ye200009a15@hotmail.com>
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How Can ThisBe wrote: > Hi, I've just noticed a small issue, which I'm sure others are aware of. > > For apache to server users webpages, apache need to be able to read files > and directories. So we have something like the following (by default) on > FreeBSD; > > tigger@piglet:~% ls -Al ./ public_html/index.php | grep pub > -rw-r--r-- 1 tigger tigger 16 Mar 24 2002 public_html/index.php > drwxr-xr-x 12 tigger tigger 512 Aug 14 02:04 public_html/ > > However, the following set-up is a little more secure (users can not read > other users includes files for a start) and works fine; > > tigger@piglet:~% ls -Al ./ public_html/index.php | grep pub > -rw-r----- 1 tigger www 16 Mar 24 2002 public_html/index.php > drwxr-x--- 12 tigger www 512 Aug 14 02:04 public_html/ > > My question is, when I make a new file or directory in ~/public_html > (with > chown tigger:www), the file is made with the following permission: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 tigger www 0 Nov 15 13:42 public_html/test1.php > > How can I make new files without the world readable flag set, within the > public_html directory? > Change your umask.
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