[PHP] Re: chown() despiration

[Peter Clarke]

Urb Lejeune wrote:

I could do this in perl but I'm being stubborn :-)

When I run the following code as a regular user, everything fails.
When I run it as root the directory is created and the chmod
works. However, chown reports:

chown failed: Operation not permitted

Here is the code.

$Directory2Create = "/home/e-govdemo/htdocs";
mkdir($Directory2Create,0777);
chown($Directory2Create,"egovdemo");
chmod($Directory2Create,0777);

"egovdemo" is a legal user name as can be seen from this partial
directory listin.

egovdemo nobody 4096 Sep 6 11:29 Logs
also tried
chown($Directory2Create,"egovdemo:nobody");
chown($Directory2Create,"637");
chown($Directory2Create,"637:99");

To help save my few reamining hairs and could someone with
root privilege try it and see if it's me or PHP?

Thanks

Urb

It works fine with PHP 4.2.2 from the command line run as root on my Linux system (using a user on my system) produced:

drwxrwxrwx 2 leagas root 4096 Jan 23 16:43 test


Peter


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