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English => Multiplatform => Mac OSX => Topic started by: Pink Panther on October 24, 2005, 09:13:55 AM
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What exactly do my following default permissions mean:
Files 6 4 0
Directories 7 5 0
What is the maximum security configuratin?
What is optimal permission configuration?
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1 means that the iser is allowed to execute the file or browse the folder
2 means that the user has the permission to write to the file or create files in the folder
4 means that user may read to the file or view the files in the folder
Then you just add them and you get the number
4+2=6(read+write)
4(read)
0(no permissions)
4+2+1=7(view files+create files+browse folder)
4+1)5(view files+browse folder)
What is the maximum security configuratin?
000 ;)
What is optimal permission configuration?
As always it's a compromise between security and comfort. I've set it to 644 for files and 750 for folders.
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Hi wuischke,
Thanks for a beautiful complete answer!
Yes, 000 is maximum security configuration indeed...
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What wuischke left out of his description is that the three digits stand for: owner's permissions, group's permissions, everybody else's permissions.
So, 6 4 0 means: owner may read and write, group may read, everybody else has no access permissions.
And 0 0 0 actually denies everybody, including you, the owner, permission to access the file. There's really no reasons to change the first digit.