File permission settings in the config file

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in the new installation (for a client), I haven’ touched the config.phpin terms of array:
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So this is the "factory setting to to speak. But should it really be like this?
From my understanding folders should be 775 and files 644?

 sudo chown -R www-data:www-data .
  sudo chmod -R 755 .
  sudo chmod -R 775 cache custom modules themes data upload
  sudo chmod 775 config_override.php 2>/dev/null

Right?
Or am I completely incorrect?

The reason I’m digging into this again is because the client’s CRM instance has a lot of “undefined” on popups and buttons in some places like Studio…

I found this thread about the same subject:

I ran the “chown 755” command in the Linux prompt and now all files / folders are on that permission.

It does seem to have solved the “Undefined” issue, but I’m not very happy with having these high level permissions in terms of security. :scream_cat:

I will test further to see that everything is working properly on this CRM instance…

Thanks in advance.

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It seems that it is working properly as before all buttons said “Undefined”.

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But from a security perspective - 755 - on everything feels quite silly and a bit Russian roulette…

Thoughts? :thinking:

Thanks again. :facepunch:

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To write values like 755 into the config.php array, make sure you prefix them with a zero, so 0775. This is PHP’s notation for specifying octal numbers.

Those 1528 are decimal, if you run them through a decimal-to-octal conversion you will see more familiar chmod values.

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Thanks for the reply pgr. :+1:

So…
‘dir_mode’ => 0???
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This one doesn’t make sense to me. That cannot be the correct value?

and
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‘file_mode’ => 0755
?
Thanks a bunch!

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Why do you think 2770 cannot be correct?

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Never seen that value before.
I just checked it out with FileZilla though:
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Seems legit :+1:

1.) Please do educate me why the group has all the permissions and why it is needed if possible so I understand it better.

2.) As I understand group permission its for all “Users” on the server that has access/ownership to a file/folder right?

3.) Mostly important on shared environments like when you use a hosting company and are sharing a “public” server with tons of other customers. (?).

4.) 2770 is for the files in the www directory/sub-directories, correct?

Thanks a bunch!