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Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Inside THE BOX |
![]() Installed Movable Type 2.0 recently. Beautiful! Works wonderfully. |
Maniac (V) Inmate From: out of a sleepy funk |
![]() the way Dreamhost runs things, they run suexec, you just CHMOD files at 755 when they call for 777. Secure, running as you. That's the depth of my knowledge on it, sorta. |
Maniac (V) Lord Mad Scientist Sovereign of all the lands Ozone and just beyond that little green line over there... From: Stockholm, Sweden |
![]() Hmm, I used to use cgi-wrap over at VISI (where the ozone pages live) before I got special treatment and a "full CGI/whatever I need" package, heh. Instructions for this were at http://www.visi.com/support/webpages/cgiwrap.html - they were pretty simple. I've never used suexec, though it sounds like a good idea, running cgi scripts as nobody can be dangerous, fer sure. |
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Inside THE BOX |
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Paranoid (IV) Inmate From: Lebanon |
![]() having a 777, can allow a user on the same host to write to your directory...probably writing scripts; read your own scripts; etc... |
Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Inside THE BOX |
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Paranoid (IV) Mad Scientist From: Inside THE BOX |
![]() Well, despite the so-called support staff's insistance that it's >ahem< "only" a log directory, I continued to seek a solution. |