RHEL 5 - chmod 777

[Florez, Nestor]

Answer to your P.S.:
1) Create a group
 2) make the directory and subdirectories part of the group 
3) add the different users to that group.
 
:-)

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Subject: RHEL 5 - chmod 777



Hi all,

I have a quick question.  One of my programmers is trying to get his program working by chmod 777 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.

Does anyone know what the highlighting means?



P.S. I know about the security risk of chmod 777.  Does anyone know of a way to allow a group of users and apache to write to a directory and all directories underneath it.

I have umask of 002 permission on directory are 2775 and user is apache with group www.  

Thanks in advance.

Denise Lopez

UCLA - Center for Digital Humanities

Network Services

Linux Systems Engineer

337 Charles E. Young Drive East

PPB 1020

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1499

310/206-8216

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