Posted by saint on 22, 2000 at 8:54 PM:
In Reply to: Re: Any CGI/PERL experts want to answer this one? Re: test posted by Lindz- on 22, 2000 at 7:09 PM:
Ah, that makes sense. I think. Mmm maybe not -
775 is owner/group/everyone == rwx/rwx/rx, ...
The web user falls into the everyone section, right?
So rx on everyone protects me from them writing to
the cgi directory. How does one give other users
in your group access to write to the cgi directory
if scripts bomb with rwx access?
Thanks for the insight!
--- saint
: Giving 775 ax's to your cgi-bin is allowing web users to write over the script, its common practice to dis-allow that normally by making the script quit with an error, I think someone probably forgot to write the error routine as they probably never tried changing the ax's when they where testing.