[Wylug-discuss] 777 access on an images directory

[Mike Goodman]

Stephen Patterson wrote:
> On 16 Oct 07, Phil Driscoll (phil at dialsolutions.co.uk) wrote:
>> On Monday 15 Oct 2007, Mike Goodman wrote:
>>>> Thus, once your site is built and your images have been created/loaded,
>>>> you should drop the security down from read/write to read. ie: change
>>>> from CHMOD 777 down to 644.
>>> When I checked, I had done that. So I can sleep soundly again ;-)
>> ...except that in most situations, you are likely to have to need to leave the 
>> site in an unprotected state so that your clients can add new products 
>> whenever they need to :(

No. Leave the permissions at 644. See below.
> 
> IIRC they'll have needed to log in to Zen as an administrator to access
> the upload functions. You can probably also use an apache .htaccess file
> (or similar) to add a further level of password, hostname & IP access
> control.

They do. They log in to their administrative section using credentials 
stored in an apache .htaccess file. They don't need accreditation as a 
*nix administrator to do so.