[TYPO3-dev] TER-installations

[Christopher]

Hi,

On 1/23/06, tapio <tapio.markula at dnainternet.net> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I discussed with nebula.fi
>
> Installing plugins using TER set user rights 775.
>
> According to Nebula this is too much.
>
> It is possible to use plugins only if user right
> are 755. Nebula regards 755 correct setting.
>
> Could it be possible to change this issue in 4.x?


775 means rwx rwx r-x. In most setups, scripts run as the webserver
user (often 'nobody'). A common way of setting up scripts is to change
the ownership of directories and files that need to be writeable to
the account user, but change their group to the group of the webserver
user. In this type of case, permissions must be set to 775 so that the
webserver user can write to files and directories.

On the other hand, 755 means rwx r-x r-x. In many hosted environments,
a default of 755 would mean that a) the webserver group could not
create directories, and b) could not write to existing directories.

So, in other words, 775 is a sensible default. You can change it if
you need to (e.g. for suexec, dedicated or vps setups etc...) by
setting '[BE][folderCreateMask]' and '[BE][fileCreateMask]' in the
install tool, but afaik there is no reason to change the _default_
setting for all installs.


-Christopher