RE: [PHP] PHP User Permissions

And if you're running apache as root, you shouldn't be allowed to. Apache should always be run as as nonpriviledged user. On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 09:04, J Smith wrote: > > > A running script cannot change its own permissions > > If you mean can't change it's user ID and/or group ID, that isn't entirely > true. > > If your script is being run as a privileged user on a UNIX system (usually > root), you can change the user/group IDs of the process (either effective > or real) with the POSIX extension. (posix_seteuid(), posix_setuid(), etc.) > > I haven't tried it from an Apache process, so I can't say if it will work > from a web server (doubtful) but it does work for standalone scripts from > the CGI/CLI. > > J > > > Jay Blanchard wrote: > > > [snip] > > Does anyone know how to define a PHP script (within itself) to run as a > > certain user. Currently my PHP scirpt runs as "nobody" and I need to > > change the user it runs as temporarily to get certain permissions to > > update a file. > > [/snip] > > > > A running script cannot change its own permissions, and if accessed from > > the browser will always run as Apache allows (which is generally > > nobody/nogroudark_panda@hushmail.comp). What you need to do is change the permission/owner > > of the > > file that you're trying to update with either chown(), chmod(), or both. > > > > HTH! > > > > Jay > > > > Good Judgement comes from experience; experience comes from Poor Judgement > > > > ***************************************************** > > * Texas PHP Developers Conf Spring 2003 * > > * T Bar M Resort & Conference Center * > > * New Braunfels, Texas * > > * Contact jay.blanchard@niicommunications.com * > > * * > > * Want to present a paper or workshop? Contact now! * > > ***************************************************** > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >