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#10984 Fix Permissions

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Latest post by nicholas on Monday, 06 February 2012 11:47 CST

Monday, 06 February 2012 11:44 CST

muddauber
Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? No
Have I searched the tickets before posting? yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? yes
PHP Built on: Linux venza.websitewelcome.com 2.6.38.7 #46 SMP Tue Jan 31 22:55:42 CST 2012 i686
Database Version: 5.1.56
Database Collation: utf8_general_ci
PHP Version: 5.2.17
Web Server: Apache
Web Server to PHP interface: cgi-fcgi
Joomla! Version: Joomla! 1.5.25 Stable [ senu takaa ama mamni ] 14-November-2011 18:00 GMT
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/535.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/16.0.912.77 Safari/535.7
Host: RochenHost
Admin Tools version: 1.5.25

Description of my issue: Attempted to fix permissions on a hacked page. While
the process completed, when I tried to review permission with Filezilla, it
showed xxx on permission rather than the standard 644 or other codes, and when I
tried to change it, it would not take. I ended up removing the file and replacing it. Do you have any insight into this? My site had the index.php page hacked and
a php code of eval(base64_decode etc ) embeded on every index.php file of my
templates.

Is there a way to hack a file and alter the permissions, yet have standard
view of file report another permission setting?

Monday, 06 February 2012 11:47 CST

nicholas
It's a permissions/ownership issue.

If you ARE NOT using Joomla!'s FTP layer, we can not change the permissions of any file/directory owned by the FTP user, unless its third permissions digit is 7. You have to enable the FTP mode in Joomla! to modify the permissions of such files.

If you ARE using Joomla!'s FTP layer, we should be able to change the permissions of any file/directory unless it's owned by a user other than the FTP user and the user under which PHP is running.

Please note that these are limitations (actually, security features) of the underlying Operating System, not something with Admin Tools in particular.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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