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Hardening and security guidance - add information about strong directory permissions
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Description
Very often administrators want to know how the directory permissions of Nextcloud should be set best. I searched the Nextcloud documentation for information about it, but couldn't find a chapter covering it. The Hardening and security guidance doesn't cover this point either.
Nevertheless I had in mind that I read a chapter in the past, about how strong directory permissions should be set best. I searched the internet and found something in a Nextcloud pull request but its not mentioned or linked anywhere anymore.
Interestingly an older ownCloud documentation contained that information. A newer version of that documentation describes at least the installation wizard script.
I don't know why this information has been removed from the documentation but would like to get it added to it again.
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