Hello,
I am sorry but it is in the best interest for security reasons that all files in cgi bin be set to chmod755 If the script requires those certain chmod settings, you may not be able to run the script at this time.
Thanks,
Todd
E-Service Team Leader
Netfirms Support
—–Original Message—–
From: admiraljustin (admiraljustin@cybrzn.com)
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 07:17 PM
To: ‘Netfirms Support’ (support@netfirms.com)
Subject: RE: Website – admiraljustin.om
Thank you, however this no prevents me from running the scripts that I was running as one of its most important directories needs to be CHMOD’d 777. The other script I was running requires some files to be 666. This prevents me from using effectively everything I was using before the erasure.
webmaster – admiraljustin.com
www.admiraljustin.com
—–Original Message—–
From: Netfirms Support [mailto:support@netfirms.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 16:58
To: Justin Fredenburgh
Subject: RE:{netfirms#085-539} Website – admiraljustin.om Hello, Our administrators have investigated the issue you reported regarding missing files, and found out that certain directory permissions were set to chmod 777. These permissions give “all users” read, write and delete access to files and directory contents irrespective of ownership. The recommended permission as mentioned in our cgi support page is chmod 755.
We feel that the permissions must have changed when you installed certain cgi scripts and/or files. In order to prevent customers from accidently setting this dangerous permission, we have pro-actively disallowed the chmod capability to change settings from 755 (default settings). Therefore this pro-active step will not affect any other future cgi installations.
We suggest that you re-upload any of your missing files.
Please let us know if we can assist you further with this situation.
—–Original Message—–
From: Justin Fredenburgh (webmaster@admiraljustin.com)
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2002 12:21 PM
To: support@netfirms.com (support@netfirms.com)
Subject: Website – admiraljustin.om
I recently noticed that many of my files are missing from my site. I would be happy to know why files have been deleted from both my cgi-bin and my www folder. The files in cgi-bin/mt/ and www/mt have ben deleted. Please contact me soon as to why this has occured. Thank you.