Re: chown ..opperation not permitted

On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 02:22 PM, Darren Gamble wrote:

Setting up sudo access should work properly. Ensure that the service is actually running as "nobody" and not another unprivileged user. However, it should be mentioned that this is a very, very insecure method! The chown operator was designed more for PHP command-line scripts that would be run as another user. You may want to re-evaluate why you are changing ownerships of directories from a web page, and determine if there is a safer, more secure way of doing what you want.

Yes, I wouldn't give "nobody" privileges to do anything with sudo. You're better off making "nobody" a member of the same group as the other user, and using chgrp. erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com