security concern with 777

[corinaw]

I was reading a post here on the dangers of 777 permissions : [external links are visible to admins only]

This has gotten me concerned about the data folder permissions set to 777.  Can a dev/admin please speak to this point and are there any plans to change the code to allow for a more secure folder setting?

Thanks,
Corina

[XML-Sitemaps Support]

Hello,

there is an .htaccess file included in data/ folder with "deny from all" directive, so all requests to that folder are blocked and it is used as logs storage only.

[corinaw]

Ahh.  Thanks. That makes sense.