[vidyaishaya]

I have a hacker who writes into folders on my website.

They were having permissions of 777, but I changed them to be 755.

Is that adequate? Or is there something I can do with an .htaccess
in the folder that prevents anyone from writing in the folder,
but not the webserver. I need to write files in it myself?

Like a 'logs' folder where I need to write logs, (or a newsletter folder). But I don't want anyone from outside to be able to write anything into the folder.

Do I need anything in the .htaccess or are the permissions adequate?

Thanks

....Burton

[MMJ]

Those permissions shouldn't really affect whether anyone can write to that folder - unless the person has direct SSH or bash access.

I suggest you make sure there are no scripts that have security holes.