Hi
Ive read alot about webserver directories not being save if you set them to 777, but I cant figure out how that could be of any harm if there is no shell access or if there are no upload script "php" or whatsoever that uploads and writes directly to that directory. I know I missed something here and there are propably a couple of other ways around. But I still wonder what could actually be done..

Note: No Iam not trying to hack anyone..

Hm... I had the same thought in the past as well because I had to take a over an issuse like that. Well, if the permissions are 777 then everybody who will be able to log in the server, as any kind of user, will have the right to do anything he wants to your files. Basically this can easily happen if there are various accounts on a web server and the users can "walk" from one directory to the other. For example, at my university we have space on a Unix system to upload our web pages. To the same server can log in all the students of the School of Computing. Having permissions as 777 to my files they are allowed to do everything they want.
That is all as far as I know. If there any other reasons I'd like to hear them.

Interesting information, so this also implies shell access, I wonder is someone can shed more light on that issue..