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Old 07-09-2007, 08:38 AM
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I understand that 777 gives full rights to everyone, but how does it let people hack into your system? How can we make sure the file or folder is secure?
The way they will do is that they may connect to your webserver through the openings port probably *I never done it* (this is just my assumption) and then they use whatever editor on their shell program to open the file that you chmod 777. Because when you chmod a file to 777, that means the rights to the user is even be able to write, read, and execute.

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