Re: chown / chgrp of a http owned file after upload

On Wednesday 06 August 2003 18:16, Bix wrote: > I have written as part of my CMS, an image upload system, now when the > images are placed in the destination folder, they are owned by httpd.root > and I need to get them to be owned by siteuser.sitegroup. > > I have tried to chmod and chgrp it to siteuser.sitegroup but it gives > permission denied errors. > > Is there any way round this without enabling run as root? Only a user with root privileges can chown/chgrp. > Or is there a > safe way to do this? The easiest way may be to ftp the uploaded files back onto the server using the 'siteuser' account. -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* A man with 3 wings and a dictionary is cousin to the turkey. */