[wp-forums] thread to watch

[Otto]

The owner of your files should always be you. Any setup that requires
something different is just wrong.

The group might be needed to be some kind of web group. On some
setups, that makes sense.

-Otto

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 1:30 PM, andrea_r <andrea at ronandandrea.com> wrote:
> What would it be chowned to though?
>
> a.
>
> Otto wrote:
>>
>> Educating him on permissions might be a better route to take.
>> wp-config should be set to 440 on normal one-site setups, or 400 on
>> shared hosting setups using any form of setuid handling (such as suPHP
>> or similar). This will prevent most routes of automated attack from
>> working.
>>
>> -Otto
>>
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