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Permissions and Ownerships issues

WorkinOnIt
I've recently set up a new vps with cpanel / cloudlinux using suPHP and EA4 (centOS). When I create an new account, it seems to always create the /public_html folder as user:user (rather than user:nobody) Directories are correctly given 755 but files are being created with permission 644 - though I'm wondering if they should they be 664? What could the issue be - or is this the correct setting? I'm not seeing any specific errors on the frontend website (wordpress) but I don't seem able to display any errors - not even php notices are showing.... though debug constants and error reporting are all set to true/on.

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  • SysSachin
    Hello, 644 is correct file permission and it should be always 644.
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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello, cPanel will automatically assign the correct group ownership values to the public_html directories (e.g. it checks Mod_Ruid2/MPM-ITK and FileProtect settings). 0644 permissions for files and 0755 permissions for directories are correct, and the recommended permission values for files and directories. Thank you.
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  • WorkinOnIt
    Ok thank you - but why are new accounts being created with ownership of public_html as user:user? I am creating them manually as root login. Should they not be user:nobody? In addition, the /public_html is being given 755 also and I thought it should be 750. What could be causing that?
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  • WorkinOnIt
    Just to update this thread - I opened a support ticket and the reply was very helpful; The behavior you're describing would be default behavior for cPanel 60 with EasyApache 4. If you wish to have the public_html directories be created with 750 permissions then you'll need to enable FileProtect:
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  • cPanelMichael
    Hello, I'm happy to see the information helped! Thank you for updating this thread with the outcome.
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