Re: PHP and permissions

On Wednesday 13 March 2002 08:55, Don wrote: > I did. That's why I'm confused. phpinfo() is telling me that the user is > myself (I don't see the group). So what is the "permission" difference > between running PHP and logging on to the server via telnet as myself? > > > On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Don wrote: > > > > use phpinfo() to find that out... > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a question about how PHP runs. I have a file on my FreeBSD > > server that is owned by another user but is the same group as myself. The > file has read/write permissions for the user only. Therefore, when I log > onto the server I cannot read or write to the file. In fact, I can not > even FTP it. > > > > The funny thing is, I wrote a PHP script to read the file (it's > > > actually > > a CSV file) into an array using the function fgetcsv and display the values > within the browser. This worked. > > > > So my question is, what user is PHP run under that allows me to access > > another user's file (but the same group)? If it's true that the file in question is only rw by the user ie 0600 or -rw------- 1 user user then it cannot be read by you OR the webserver -- unless the webserver is running as root (unlikely). So the question is, are you 100% positively sure that the permissions are as you said only read/write for the user? -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk /* Lord, defend me from my friends; I can account for my enemies. -- Charles D'Hericault */