I recently installed a PHP script, and whilst looking at settings in Core FTP lite, I notice all my files on my jodohost account seem to be set to 777. I don’t know if this makes me more vulnerable to any possible attacks? If I right click and try to change a setting it just comes up with ‘command not understood’. Any ideas?
permissions like 777 works on Linux, on which platform your account hosted, window or linux?
Thank you for the reply! That would be the reason why - I’m on windows.
Should I be concerned if all folders and files are set to 777, or is it reasonably secure to leave things this way? I’m presuming everything is set to 777 by default on a Windows server?
- it may be showing 777 wrongly 2. we can remove permissions if you need by request
Hi Stephen. I’ve removed the particular vulnerable installation part of the script now it’s up and running. I’m afraid I really don’t know how vulnerable files and folders are when chmod is set to 777 (assuming this is the case). I imagine the chances are it’s probably fine to keep it as it is.