To get directory permissions, you'd really have to go through either FTP or a
terminal connection (telnet, etc).

Yes, but that's doing it programmatically, what about this?

What if you knew that a directory on a site was set to 0777 -- what damage could you cause?

I have seen scripts that clients purchase that require permissions for certain directories to be set to 0777 and left that way. The scripts don't change the permissions; write the file; and then change them back but rather just leave them set at 0777.

If a site is using such a script and you know what directories have to be set to 0777, then that's a security issue, isn't it?

Cheers,

tedd
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