CHMOD 666 Dangers

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    What are the dangers of having a file with permissions set to 666?

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  2. sahilkotak

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    Hi,

    I think with that permissions you give right of writing on file. So that can be very much harmful for your site.
     
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    why can I only use fwrite functions when file is chmodded 666 on some servers, and am able to write normally when file is chmodded 644 on others?
     
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    Or let me rephrase,

    I am with hostmonster, and I can fwrite to my own server when file has permissions set to 644, but it seems that on other servers, I must set to 666 to have php fwrite work correctly.

    Can anyone help me or tell me why this might be?

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    Sounds like HostMonster has SuPHP installed on your server.
     
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    Is there a way around having your file chmodded to 666 to fwrite it?
     
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    Have SuPHP installed, if they refuse, get a new host.
     
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    well, its the number of the beast.
     
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    It just depends on how they setup the apache to run. It's not really a big deal just change the permissions of the file and move one.
     
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