Re: unlink() & rmdir() ... Problems.

PHP Junkie wrote:

Ave, Apache to the best of my knowledge runs as "nobody" by default and since I didn't change any settings, it is probably running as "nobody". This is what I got with ls -al rahul:/Library/WebServer/Documents/informed-sources.com/imsafm bob$ ls -al total 16

drwxrwxrwx    5 nobody  nobody    170 24 Aug 13:55 .
drwxrwxrwx  102 bob     unknown  3468 24 Aug 11:23 ..
-rw-rw-rw-    1 bob     unknown  6148 24 Aug 13:57 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x    3 www     www       102 24 Aug 11:05 bobkasper
drwxr-xr-x    3 www     www       102 24 Aug 11:09 rjohari

Now you see the last 2 folders... "bobkasper" and "rjohari". These are 2 users created by the admin. If I delete a user, their corresponding folder should be deleted as well, which is what I am trying to achieve. But if, let's say, I delete the user "rjohari"... The folder still remains. Thanks for helping...

If Apache is running as nobody/nobody, it does not have permission to delete these directories. The only users who can delete these directories are the respective users, and root. You need to have write permission to delete...

drwxr-xr-x    3 www     www       102 24 Aug 11:09 rjohari

In the above, the 'd' means directory, the next three letter are the user's permissions (full, read/write/execute), next three characters (r-x) are the group's permissions (read/execute), and the last three are other's (world) permission (read/execute). The two 'www' are the owner (user) and group. For the directory rjohari, only root and the user www can delete and/or write to this directory. -- John C. Nichel ÜberGeek KegWorks.com 716.856.9675 john@kegworks.com