CHMOD question with smf

[akya]

When i was installing smf 2 RC1 and later when installing packages , i had problems with chmod permissions as setup said folder not writable.... 755 didn't helped, so I had to change chmod permission of each and every file/folder to 777 to install it successfully... Now everything is installed , up and running fine. My question is that keeping security in mind , which folder's , file's permission should be changed back and also changed to what? Can anybody help me on this?
Thanks....

[Neorics]

Just go to Admin>Packages>Options

and set the file permissions there to Only the standard files are writable.

[akya]

I did that but it is not changing file permissions from 777... can u tell me what are standard file permissions? I mean which files should be 777 and which should be 755 or 666 or whatever? Thanks for your reply

[Neorics]

I did that but it is not changing file permissions from 777... can u tell me what are standard file permissions? I mean which files should be 777 and which should be 755 or 666 or whatever? Thanks for your reply

I asked the same question before and I never had an answer to that. Sorry.

[Rumbaar]

Well if you set that option, it should change those that need to be to the correct CHMOD for the forum to operate safely.  If it's kept the file/folder at 777 maybe it's one that needs to be at the level.

What files/folders are at 777 that you think shouldn't be?