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		richthegeek on May 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Deno 1.0 chmod/chown has been the de facto (if not de jure) method securing LAMP stacks for as long as I have been alive. Not that I recommend taking the advice of a LAMP stack too seriously :)

tuukkah on May 14, 2020 [–]

If the de facto method refers to "chmod 777", I wouldn't call that securing ;-)

But indeed, if there is a separate user account for the application, then chmod can be used for some control to its access to files and directories.

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