Rob,
Maybe you could setup a guest user account that the files could be owned by.
Jamie
On Monday 18 March 2002 19:19, you wrote:
> Here's a tricky question...
>
> Summary: How do I get the FTP server and apache server to be able to
> modify the same files and directories?
>
> I've got a set of PHP scripts that makes directories in a specific web
> accessable folder. The top directory is called 'FILES' and needs to
> belong to group 'nobody'. Apache creates more subdirectories inside of
> it, depending upon which project ID from the database was created.
>
> I've also got a client logging into FTP and uploading files into these
> subdirectories.
>
> I've got this much working so far.
>
> The problem comes when the project is deleted from the database. I want
> to remove all uploaded files and the directories.
>
> The problem is that the group doesn't 'stick', and the uploaded files
> look like this:
>
> -rw-r--r-- user user file1.txt
>
> I've tried various things, including making the directory sgid. The
> files always come up owned by 'user' and belonging to group 'user'.
>
> I did find that the ftp daemon, proftpd, has a place to alter user and
> group ids, but this didn't work either.
>
> Any ideas appreciated. I'm willing to try what should work again.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
