How do I setup the right folder permission for client?

Hi,

Say if a client wants to upload an image to his website that will be stored in folder x, and he is the only person allowed to write to folder x, what is the correct file permission?

I think my client is actually a world user since he uses the content management system I created to upload images and permission 777 is needed, but I think giving folder x a permission 777 is bad, not secure.

How do you handle it? Can I do something with php? This is for an account in a shared server.

Thanks,
John

If you know the user and group apache is using (Most of the time it's either nobody:nobody or www:www), and you have permission to do so, you can chown the folder.

for example:
chown nobody:nobody folder/

for help, you can type:
chown --help

Since you're on a shared host you're probably not allowed to chown it (at least I'm not), but maybe you can send a mail to the admin and ask if he can do it for you?