metacard Digest, Vol 8, Issue 18

[Richard MacLemale]

On 5/15/04 12:00 PM, "metacard-request at lists.runrev.com"
<metacard-request at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> That's good to know. I'd like to revise my tutorial to mention this. I
> just tried setting permissions for the engine in my own /cgi/ folder to
> 555 and it works just as well as 755.
> 
> So the question is: should the directions in the tutorial just tell
> people to use 555, or should it say to try both and see which one works?
> 
> Chomd 555 removes the ability to write to the engine, but that's not
> possible anyway even with 755 (except by the owner.) The only difference
> practically speaking is that maybe some setups require 555.
> 
> Anyone have a suggestion on the best explanation for the tutorial?

Heh heh.  I'm still here, I just pretty much never post.

555 will work just as good as 755 for the mc engine, because as you say,
you'll never have to actually write to the engine.  There's only one
exception I can think of, and that is if you wanted to replace the mc
executable with, say, a newer one.  In that case, you being the owner, you'd
need it to be 755 instead of 555.  That's the only reason I can think of for
going 755.  I just use 755 out of force of habit because in most cases I do
want to be able to modify the files I own.

-- 
:)
Richard MacLemale
Network Administrator
J. W. Mitchell High School