On Tuesday 24 August 2004 01:55, PHP Junkie wrote:

> I do have the original permission set to CHMOD 777 thus the uploads are
> working fine.
>
> I had presumed that anything uploaded by the server is owned by it thus I
> wouldn't have to interfere with the permissions thereafter... But somehow
> that doesn't seem to be working out.
>
> I did actually set the permissions for group "nobody" to 'Read & Write'...
> But I'm still there. The Files or Folders are not getting deleted.

In order for a user to delete a file they must have:

1) 'x' permission for all directories in the path
2) 'wx' permission for the directory containing the file

NB the permissions on the files themselves are irrelevant.

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