Hi David,
Whenever your script needs to write to a folder, you can chmod that folder
from php
<?php
chmod ("/path/to/folder",intval(777,8));
?>
and then when you are done writing to the folder. chmod it back to 644 or
whatever needed.
Regards
Shuja Shabandri
On 1/3/06, David Halliday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Is there any way at all to enable users of a php
> script to create folders and files on linux/apache
> servers?
>
> Briefly, I have a folder called halliday with a
> subfolder classes: and I want students from 5 classes
> to register and login. Now two students from each
> class will be granted permission to create folders
> (e.g. class1 etc.. see below) and files (using mkdir +
> fwrite), so it would look something like this:
>
> /halliday/classes/class1
> /halliday/classes/class2
> /halliday/classes/class3
> /halliday/classes/class4
> /halliday/classes/class5
>
> I have been struggling with this for two weeks now
> without success. To cut a long story short .. the only
> way I could do this is by manually changing the
> permission on the folder 'classes' to 777 (or 0777) ..
> ie READ + WRITE + EXECUTE for OWNER - GROUP - ALL
> USERS. Now I think this is a security risk because
> some students are worse than real life hackers and
> leaving it like that is not really a good idea. What I
> want is to create a group somehow and grant permission
> to the group only .. not all users. Then when members
> login the script will 'know' who has the right
> permission. CAn this be done via php and mysql?
>
> Thank you,
> David
>
>
>
>
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