From: paul@... (paul vudmaska)
Date: 2004-05-18T15:18:50+09:00
Subject: writable

Thanks to the help of a kind rubyist i'm able to write a script for
creating directories - some of them writable by the web server for
uploading files.

This permission works 0757  which amounts to
drwxr-xrwx 

All privs for owner and other but not write for group.

Owner  	                Group  	                Other
r 	w 	x 	r 	w 	x 	r 	w 	x
4 	2 	1 	4 	2 	1 	4 	2 	1

7                        5                       7

I would have thot 0775 would have been better(not writable by other),
but that did not fly. What permission octet do the gurus recommend for
writable directories?

Seems to me, group should be the correct permission for the server.
Does'nt other mean the whole world and will allow them to put baddies
in there?

Thanks a bunch guys and gals,
:P

ps: for those who've not checked
http://phrogz.net/ProgrammingRuby/frameset.html
it's a great, dynamic online version of pickaxe - thanks to gavin.