Is setting CHMOD to 777 Dangerous?

chmod 777 The reason 777 is bad is because other gives permissions to anyone who has access to your computer: for example, if you're hacked, the hacker. chmod 777 makes a filefolder readable, write-able and executable by everyone. So essentially on your site folder, you have given everyone permission to write to that folder, so you have

bigbos777, To apply chmod 777 to all the files and subfolders within the folder, you can use the find command in combination with the chmod command..