[support] Drush changes permissions and overwrites htaccess

[Earnie Boyd]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Tim Johnson <tim at akwebsoft.com> wrote:
> * Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net> [121217 04:24]:
>> On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:
>> >
>> >  But drush is still changing permissions to 750 on the root
>> >  directory on the remote server. This disables the site until I
>> >  reset the permissions to 755.
>> >
>>
>> DocumentRoot should never be able to be read by others.  Drush is
>> doing a good thing here.  The DocumentRoot group should match that of
>> the user id executing httpd.  This would allow the httpd user to read
>> the DocumentRoot directory with 750 permissions.
>   According the techs at hostmonster (this is a _shared_ hosting),
>   all site roots *must* be 755.
>
>   I also escalated my question to their upper-level techs with
>   Ernie's statement above quoted, but have yet to get a reply.
>
>   It seems that what drush is doing is simply setting the same
>   permissions as the source site. I.E. when I push content from my
>   workstation where permissions are 750, then drush sets the target
>   as 750, but when I changed the permissions on the workstation to
>   755, drush obliging left them at 755 on the remote hostmonster
>   server.
>
>   I think my brain is going to explode.... after 17 years of web
>   programming and 12 on *nix systems, I still feel like a flipping
>   noob...

Some host companies want you to do the wrong thing.  See
https://my.hostmonster.com/cgi/help/594 for the suggested corrections.
 You're probably correct about your client and ftp.  You might need to
change the permissions on your client to get along with hostmonster
service.

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Earnie
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