Re: Kudos, thanks, and question (re: permissions)

[Douglas Berger <dberger@ihumanism.org>]

I have a domain hosted on Prohosting, so my miliage may vary, but my data 
directory was allowed to be chmod 777 and I just checked through my admin 
page and it is still 777
I changed it through my FTP client.
On 08:17 AM 9/8/2000 -0700, lists at canonical.net said:
>I'm glad you brought this up b/c I was going to suggest free.prohosting.com
>to someone . . .
>
>prohosting won't allow _files_ or _directories_ to be chmod 777?  None of
>the .pl files should need chmod 777, but directory (or folder) "data" does
>(sometimes -- you can play around with it)
>
>I had a host that was weird about permissions too -- directories had to be
>711  (but that was only at the top level e.g.
>www.mydomain.com/cgidirectory/  (you didn't have a cgi-bin -- you could make
>your own directories anywhere)
>
>Your message sounded like you couldn't chmod directory data -- but you said
>you couldn't chmod files -- so I am probably confused  . . .
>
>My structure is /cgi-bin
>                         /lib
>                         /data
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