recursive command to set permission

leonep

• February 06, 2017 15:54

Hi, i want to know if is secure to use the recursive commands for assign the permissions. i have read something here time ago with security problem about recursive chown this command can be consider safe ? i use suPhP the purpose is to correct all files in public_html for user in `ls -1 /var/cpanel/users | grep -v "\/"`; do find /home/$user/public_html/ -name "*" | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs -n 1 chmod 644; find /home/$user/public_html/ -type d | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs -n 1 chmod 755; find /home/$user/subdomains/ -name "*";find /home/$user/subdomains/ -type d | sed 's/ /\\ /g' | xargs -n 1 chmod 755;done thanks

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  cPanelMichael

  • February 06, 2017 21:45

  Hello, It's generally advised to avoid using recursive chown or chmod commands. For instance, it's possible a user has intentionally configured the permissions on a file/directory to something other than 0755 or 0644. Thank you.

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  Infopro

  • February 06, 2017 21:46

  i have read something here time ago with security problem about recursive chown

  
  I'm guessing you're referring to this old post: Switching to suPHP That thread is still of value I think.

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  leonep

  • February 06, 2017 22:12

  thanks is it

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