How to set default permissions on Linux?

[CBREGolf]

Some hosting providers don't by default set the file group membership to a group that the apache user belongs to. In this case, you will need to either request your hosting provider to change the group ownership of your Sugar installation files to a group that the Apache web server is a member of or set the file permissions to:

* 777 for the directories listed above
* 666 for the config.php file and all files in the directories listed above

http://www.sugarcrm.com/wiki/index.p...sions_on_Linux

Can anyone tell me how to set these in SugarCRM config? I see arrays in config.php and utils.php but I'm not sure what values to use. I have all of my permissions set to 777, which is the only way I can fix all of the "undefined" messages I was getting - but new files, folders and repairs seem to use the default permissions and don't work on my shared Linux hosting.

Any ideas/explanations would be greatly appreciated! I read a few other threads but ended up more confused than before.

[salesagility]

you don't set them in sugarcrm ... these are linux file permissions ... not sugarcrm file permissions.

go here for a description of file permissions http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/linux/..._ugfilesp.html

[CBREGolf]

Hmmm. I wonder why they would revert then? I used an FTP client to change all permissions to 777 (recursed to directories and files) but every time I work on a custom module, the permissions for that module's files are too restrictive. I assumed it was because these are files which SugarCRM is writing.

[roblaus]

I think you answered it yourself here: http://www.sugarcrm.com/forums/showt...light=dir_mode

There are a couple of threads around that suggest a different setting, search for "dir_mode"

[CBREGolf]

Thanks. I changed the permissions in config.php and include/utils.php to 511 which seems to have solved several problems. Some files are still being created with different permissions (history files mainly) but it doesn't seem to be causing problems.