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Is this something to have concern about?

Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:33 am
by seodevhead
Hey guys... I'm installing X-Cart Shopping Cart on my server (linux) and notice that the installation instructions for X-Cart require that many directories be chmod'ed to 777 for the cart to work properly.

Over the years... I have taken great steps to not allow any folders to be of 777 permissions, and am a little dissapointed to see I must use it for XCart. Is this something to concern myself with? Am I being way too paranoid?

X-Cart tells me what to set permissions too.

Thanks for any help.

Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 8:58 am
by xpgeek
Yeah it's seem as paranoia :wink:
Follow by instruction on X-Cart manual.

Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:02 am
by Jenk
You can ignore those permissions.

Chown those directories that require write/execute to the owning process (i.e. your webserver) with 7 for either group or owner, depending on whom you chown to.

The others can remain on 644 or even 444 if you are not running cgi-bin.