[BlueOnyx:05636] Re: Permissions issue with suPHP

[Darrell D. Mobley]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-bounces at blueonyx.it]
> On Behalf Of Darrell D. Mobley
> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 6:54 PM
> To: 'BlueOnyx General Mailing List'
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:05625] Permissions issue with suPHP
> 
> I have a client site created using suPHP that I installed Joomla on for
> them.  I set it up using the standard installer and did not implement the
> FTP transfer method.
> 
> The problem I am having is with a specific plugin called SigPlus
> (http://extensions.joomla.org/extensions/photos-a-images/photo-
> gallery/11426)
> 
> This is a content plugin and a module that enables images to be displayed
> in content articles using thumbnails that when clicked expand using a
> lightbox-style feature.
> 
> The problem I am having with the client site is the thumbnails and
> supporting directories are being created with incorrect permissions.
> Instead of being 644 for the thumbnail images, they are being created as
> 600, virtually making them unreadable to the web user.

I have made some progress on this:

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=286584

etc/suphp.config file

Changed unmask from 0077 to 0022

Does this file get overwritten by Yum?

Now I am having another issue.  The site is run by a single user who is also
the site administrator.

If this user edits the sites template's index.php or template's CSS files in
the Joomla 1.5 administrative control panel, it saves them with this
permissions:

-r-xr-xr-x

With that, you can no longer edit it with an FTP editor., because it is
missing the site owner's "w" bit.  If you manually change the files to:

-rwxr-xr-x

You can edit them with an FTP editor, but the next time you edit and save
them in the administrative backend, it goes back to:

-r-xr-xr-x

How do I fix this behavior? Shouldn't it set the files as 644 anyway?