Re: PHP Directory Permissions on Linux (aka dumb newbie question)

You should be able to do what you are wanting to do in /tmp - /tmp is sort of special in that it has the "sticky bit" enabled (chmod +t /path/to/dir) which lets any user write to the directory BUT others can read/write to other peoples files. You could alwasy just "chown nobody.nobody /path/to/dir" which makes it writable by nobody (which apache runs as) and that should make it writable by only the apache binary. --Joe On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 11:50:24AM -0500, Leonard T. Harris wrote: > Hi folks, > > Here's a dumb question (I'm a complete idiot so please forgive). I > installed the PHP4 as a module to Apache 1.3.12 on my Red Hat 6.2 box. I > want to be able to manipulate some files with PHP, but only in one > directory, and I don't want other users in there (other than myself). So > far the only way I've been able to allow PHP to work with the files is by > setting the permissions so everyone has complete access to them. I'm > thinking I need to change ownership of the files or maybe change the group > they belong to, but what user or group? > > I've also installed MySQL 3.22.32, but I haven't done anything with it yet. > Am I going to have to revisit this issue when I start using MySQL? > > Possibly related Apache is started on boot by root and several httpd process > are run by a user called nobody (BTW I never created this user). MySQL is > also started on boot by root and the mysql processes are run by my userid. > Do I need to change any of this? > > Thanks, > > -Leonard > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net ================================================================================ = Joe Stump joestump98@yahoo.com http://www.miester.org = ================================================================================ "Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it should be hard to understand."