MTSETUP 0.1a considered “Oh my god people, how many fucking times do I have to say this?!”
I was then perplexed at [MovableType's] lack of any kind of automated setup script to assist folks who might not be too comfortable with editing even a few lines of a configuration file.
So I decided to create a tool that makes it shockingly easy for bad people who are to do very bad things. see also :
two words : chmod 0777, movable thoughts #9 (this
stuff was implemented in MT 1.3), 550 or even just 500 (only tangentially related and, now that I think about it, not incorrect but not exactly correct either - so it goes...) and suPHP.