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.