So in my web environment, I need to apply the following file/folder permissions:

Folders: 775
Files: 664

RSFirewall incorrectly tells me to try to change this to 775 and 644. This will not work as the running Apache user is not the same as the owner of the files. Which is pretty standard, as my Apache user does not have login ability.

There should be a setting that allows us to set what the default permissions SHOULD be. Then it would stop telling me to change them and give me my proper score

My2cents,

~Red

PS - If there is a way to do this I could not find it, please show me.

I know exactly what you are talking about.... When we changed servers we suddenly had a different rights system, requiring 775/664 instead of 755/644.

However, we found out that this was related to the owner issue.

We use

chown -R mydomainowner:psaserv ./

which changes the ownership on all files in the folder httpdocs. Then we were able to use 755/644 again.

But - yes, it depens on the system, I guess....