Re: touch

From: Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 00:27:42 +0000
Subject: Re: touch
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On Fri, 5 Jan 2001 16:18:12 -0800 (PST), jeremy brand <jeremy@nirvani.net> wrote: >It is probably your operating system. The user (or level) that your >webserver runs as must have the ability to do this before PHP can >inherite the rights from your webserver. >> I have safe_mode off and touch still cannot create a file. Is this a >> PHP security issue, or Apache? >> >> Egan I was getting ready to answer my own question because I realized the same thing a few minutes later. Duh! I changed the directory to make it group writable, and then it worked, but that causes another problem. Apache is running as wwwrun/nogroup -- so wwwrun is now the owner of the newly created file. But I wanted the owner to be the same as the owner of the parent directory. Any easy way to do that? Egan

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