As you can see, this CGI script is executing. However, this directory IS group-writable, as we can easily demonstrate: total 12 drwxrwxr-x 2 ddbweb pg75234 81 Jul 23 2006 . drwxrwxr-x 4 ddbweb pg75234 48 Jul 23 2006 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 ddbweb pg75234 638 Jul 23 2006 dirprot.shtml -rwxr-xr-x 1 ddbweb pg75234 253 Jul 23 2006 triv001.cgi -rwxr-xr-x 1 ddbweb pg75234 253 Jul 23 2006 triv001.txt Show who we're running as: uid=863558(ddbweb) gid=51581(pg75234) groups=51581(pg75234),475290(ddbonly),712679(blogphot) /home/ddbweb/dd-b.net/dhtests/suexec/dirprot