Re: touch

From: Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2001 01:21:57 +0000
Subject: Re: touch
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> 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? No. Only superuser can do a chown(). If you run your web server as root, then you could do this, but I don't even think apache allows it, and anyone did do it, I would call them stupid. Using scripts and setuid root programs, you could do it, but again, this is a real nice security risk. :) :) Jeremy Jeremy Brand :: Sr. Software Engineer :: 408-245-9058 :: jeremy@nirvani.net http://www.JeremyBrand.com/Jeremy/Brand/Jeremy_Brand.html for more Get your own Free, Private email at http://www.smackdown.com/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "<body>" -- Quoted from Yahoo! homepage, http://www.yahoo.com

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