Re: [PHP] Permissions set on php script question

Bojan Tesanovic wrote:
> Heh you are really new to Linux 
>
> permissions on linux are set per user/group/other bases
>
> so for most secure set permissions to read only for web-server user 
> so 
> chown 'webserveruser' file.php
> chmod 400 file.php
>
> make sure you have root access at server so you can change that file
>
> or make a group for web-server as your group and set 
> read permissions on group level
> chmod 440 file.php
>
Thank-you

But most web sites are virtually hosted and do not have root access to 
set this up.

Most people just take the package and install with default masks.

So again I ask:

Are there are any security concerns when the read permission
is set on other.  ie Couldn't one write a program to remotely read the 
contents of the file.

  Wouldn't it be better if the read permission was set for
user only and the php engine
could run the program as user like one can do for cgi using suEXEC.

Again thanks

David J.