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What is CHMOD 660?

akkira Posted messages 24 Status Member -  
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To be able to install a forum in PHP, I'm told to do this:

Set a CHMOD 660 on members.php, posts.txt, log.txt, time1.txt, time2.txt, mailspam.txt, and infos.txt.

Can you tell me what it is and especially how to do it, please?

Thank you in advance!

akkira
Webmaster of the Cyberpunk Den
http://www.antrecyberpunk.be.tf

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  1. anne-marie
     
    Good evening
    if I understood correctly from your message, you are working on Linux or Unix
    Chmod is a way to give access rights on directories or files

    chmod xyz
    x = rights for owner
    y = rights for group
    z = rights for others

    well, all this doesn't mean that chmod 660 will solve your problem (0 = nothing and 7 = everything)
    660 means

    for each x, y, z the rights break down as follows
    4+2+1 (reading, writing, execution : x+y+z)

    660 therefore means
    Owners = ok for reading and writing but no execution (4+2+0)
    Group = the same (4+2+0)
    Others: nothing, no rights (0+0+0)

    but if the installation requests this chmod, it's already quite a lot of rights
    as "root" under unix it's possible to change these rights afterwards
    so GO in my opinion

    anne-marie
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  2. anne-marie
     
    and the manual?

    $chmod 660 file_name (or directory)
    I don’t know if that works.........
    sorry but my Unix world is very theoretical

    anne-marie
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    1. akkira Posted messages 24 Status Member
       
      oki thanks but it's all good, I found it ;-)
      actually, I'm not working on UNIX or LINUX but on our good old Windows, and this technique is simply doable through the FTP client! there's an option "change priorities" or something like that, and there we can modify the CHMOD number ;-)

      again, thanks to you who replied to me :-)

      akkira
      Webmaster of the Cyberpunk Den
      http://www.antrecyberpunk.be.tf
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      1. onvice > akkira Posted messages 24 Status Member
         
        I use the Da NobodX Forum software which does not use a database, mysql........
        Problem: I am asked to protect the folder by chmod 660 ([B. From your FTP software]
        3. Upload all the files and directories to your site.
        4. Apply CHMOD 660 on the directories "dnf/f", "dnf/sfm" and "dnf/topics". See the FAQ paragraph below for more information.) I can't apply this
        thank you
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  3. teebo Posted messages 33585 Registration date   Status Contributor Last intervention   1 797
     
    hop, an elevator due to a little ch'ti problem ;-)
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