Using File Permissions brings down entire site?

[Angelina Belle]

I guess sometimes UNIX is not UNIX, and the owner shown in DIR is not the owner.
That is weird.

[kat]

"Weird" describes the entire world of the internet, rather well.

[Joshua Dickerson]

Is this actually a bug? Still happening?

[Illori]

i have seen on my server [before moved to another server by host but not tested after move] some mods cause the main home/<username> folder to have incorrect chmod applied on a server that requires chmod 755 on folders. i had spoken to norv about it at the time and he said he had heard others have similar issues but no idea what caused it.

[Angelina Belle]

If anyone is willing to loan me a 1 and 1 account, I am willing to do the experiment.
I am not willing to do this on my live forum.

phpinfo tells me: SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache and also  Server API CGI , so I know that I've got apache running php in Suexec mode.

I am pretty sure 1and1 has this set up correctly.  They've been doing this for a while, and they seem to have a good reputation for setting their servers up properly.

[Trekkie101]

I can't get this to 000 anything on my cPanel host, sadly no 1&1 account to try with. Marking as unable to reproduce, someone open a new bug report if it persists.

[Angelina Belle]

Might as well.  Nobody can reproduce the error, for lack of an appropriate testing platform.

I really do wish I could find another 1&1 account to test this on.

[Arantor]

Closing this, retracking centrally under https://github.com/SimpleMachines/SMF2.1/issues/1276

That report links back here and means that when we tackle it, we can find all the relevant information easily.