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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Hi all,</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I have a quick</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">questio</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">n. One of my programmers is trying to get his program working by chmod 777</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> directories. On my RHEL 4 server the program is working but on the RHEL 5 server when I do a ls -alh of the directory, it is highlighted and the permissions are 777.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Does anyone know what the highlighting means?</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">P.S. I know about the security risk of chmod 777. Does anyone know of a way to allow a group of users</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> apache to write to a directory and all directories underneath it.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">I have umask of 002 permission on directory are 2775 and user</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">is apache with group www. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Thanks in advance.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Denise Lopez</FONT></SPAN></P>
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