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

Much appreciated! Will try the ftp approach, thanks. "Jason Wong" <php-general@gremlins.biz> wrote in message news:200308061823.32153.php-general@gremlins.biz... > 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. > */ >