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[Mark Simko]

On Thu, 2010-03-18 at 12:00 -0400, joomla-request at lists.nyphp.org wrote:
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> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:30:33 -0300
> From: Helv?cio da Silva <helvecio.rj at gmail.com>
> To: "NYPHP SIG: Joomla" <joomla at lists.nyphp.org>
> Subject: Re: [joomla] Permission problems
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> To 777, actually.
> 
> Gee I wish there had some kind of warning.
> 

Ok: Warning - don't set file permissions on your web server to 777!

There's some background material here:
http://docs.joomla.org/How_do_UNIX_file_permissions_work%3F

And the quick low down:
Files = 644
Directories = 755