So there's no way for me to open that file ? It's generated as zapman and I can't change that... Any ideas or tricks to get around the protection without causing a big security
hole ? Fred wrote: > Your PHP script may be owned by zapman, but it is run as nobody. Therefore > your file that you need to access also needs to be owned by nobody. > > Fred > > Wim Godden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to open a file (using fopen) in the /tmp directory which is > > owned by user 'zapman'. The php script is also owned by user 'zapman'. > > However, when I try to run it, I get : > > Warning: fopen("/tmp/1.dat","r") - Permission denied in > > /documents/zapman/html/openfile.php on line 5 > > > > If I do a ps auwx | grep http, I get : > > root 20341 0.0 0.0 15100 56 ? S 12:46 0:02 > > /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL > > nobody 20342 0.6 3.3 18276 4184 ? S 12:46 0:26 > > /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL > > nobody 20343 0.8 4.6 20008 5936 ? S 12:46 0:35 > > /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL > > nobody 20344 0.3 3.2 16100 4108 ? S 12:46 0:15 > > /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd -DSSL > > > > So the main process is running as root, the rest is running as nobody... > > that's the way to do it, right ? Or should I run Apache as root (which I > > don't like at all !) ? > > > > Greetings, > > > > Wim Godden > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
