RE: [PHP] chown/chgrp not working

Good day, What user is the application running as? Only the superuser can use these functions (this is documented with both of these functions). For security reasons, you may want to use an external sudo script to accomplish this. Be very, very careful... ============================ Darren Gamble Planner, Regional Services Shaw Cablesystems GP 630 - 3rd Avenue SW Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 4L4 (403) 781-4948 -----Original Message----- From: Paul Warner [mailto:pwarner@winners-circle.com] Sent: Friday, November 30, 2001 8:24 AM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] chown/chgrp not working I have a client that I made a image uploader/thumbnailer for that insists on using FrontPage. In order to make FP happy, I need to set the owner to 'nobody' and the group to 'site3' which are uid 99 and gid 117. The uploaded file is set as httpd/root and the thumbnail created by the script comes out httpd/site3. First I tried: chown($file_name, 99); chgrp($file_name, 117); Next I tried: chown($file_name, '99'); chgrp($file_name, '117'); This fails to get the uid or gid, so the first syntax appears to be correct. Finally I tried: chown($file_name, 'nobody'); chgrp($file_name, 'site3'); Error message for first and third attempts is identical: Warning: chown failed: Operation not permitted in /home/sites/site3/web/dev/maintenance.php on line 191 Why is it 'not permitted' and how do I allow it? -- Paul -- 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