Thank you for the answers.

2013/3/12 Samuel Bächler <baechler@boeser.ch>
Dear All

I installed nginx and configured it to use /var/www/default-page as its
root folder for static web pages. ls -l /var/www returns

drwxrw----. 2 nginx nginx 4096 Mar 9 11:00 default-page

I do connect to the HOST where nginx is installed using ssh with
public key encryption: ssh my_user@HOST

my_user is just a plain vanilla user. I added my_user to group
nginx. I used my_user to create web content such as a index.html file.

ls -l /var/www/default-page returns

-rw-r--r--. my_user my_user 827 Mar 5 21:30 index.html

Does anyone see any security problems with this setup?

So, drwxr-xr-x my_user my_user will suit my needs best.

Regards

Sam