Re: chown help please!

Hi, in my man-page for chown it says: "The ownership of a file may only be altered by a super-user for obvious security reasons." Makes sense. So if Apache runs the visitor under user "nobody", files and dirs created will be owned by "nobody" and that can't be changed from within the script. If you are on a shared server where everybody else also have Apache running under "nobody" it means that everybody elses scripts on the server also will have potential access to both your PHP-scripts and the generated files. A problem for which I only know one solution: Run under "cgiwrap". That allows you to run scripts (e.g. PHP) under your own user name and thus files and dirs will have that name too. But this can only work under the CGI-version of PHP. Pair Networks (pair.com) supports this well, there are surely many other providers too. Apache's "suexec" might provide the same solution (even in the module version of PHP ?) but I have never tried that. Best regards Soren "Frank" U5 UK Ltd. At 14:38 7/10/00 -0500, you wrote: >...If php creates a folder as nobody (mkdir >folder), how on earth do I also have php change the owner to be me? I have >tried 'chown myusername folder' but that doesn't work. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ DSA Co., Ltd. leading in Information Processing. e-mail: dsa@trv.net Tel: +66-76-340 584 Fax: +66-76-341 334 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~