[thelist] chmod 666

Hassan Schroeder hassan at webtuitive.com
Tue Feb 11 21:06:01 CST 2003


Caren Spencer-Smith wrote:

> Why would anyone ever want to set permissions to 777?

To have a world-writable directory -- typically used for temporary
application-created files.

HTH!
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