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What are the risk associated while setting file/directory permission to 0777?

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Mar 15, 20263499 views
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Currently, I am not being able to upload a file to a web folder. Whatever I do, even setting the folder permissions to 0777 I cannot upload the file to it. Out of curiosity, I searched for the risk associated while setting the file permissions as 0777. Found a question here, but didn't quite had th…

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Setting 0777 on a (and I'm talking about a folder here, not a file) doesn't involve any execution security risk like some would state. See http://content.hccfl.edu/pollock/aunix1/filepermissions.htm The risks are: anybody can read files in this fold…

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