Very Computer

Hi,

I host a webserver and use PHP to enable people to upload work to my
server. I use Linux and is unsecure if I am a complete nutcase using
chmod o+rw to a catalogue (/uploaded) to let people store their PDF
files there.

If this is the wrong approach, how should I do (I am pretty new to
Linux, so go for the easy version...)

Thanks
Robert

You allow _all_ users to write to this directory. It would be better to put
them all in one group and then do a chmod g+rw for this dir. But this will
still allow people to delete other peoples files (because deleting means
changing the folder, not the file). If you don't want people to do this,
you need to set the sticky bit. Then you would get chmod g+rwt.

Hope this helps
nordi

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