Re: [PHP] chown ..opperation not permitted

2002-04-15 Thread Erik Price
On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 01:54 PM, John Weez wrote: I have a script which makes a directory. This directory is owned by nobody.nobody because that is what apache runs as. But, I want this directory to be owned by a differrent user. So, After making the directory i use the php

Re: [PHP] chown ..opperation not permitted

2002-04-15 Thread John Weez
No, user nobody does not have access to chown command. This is part of my problem i suspect. Erik Price wrote: Are you saying that when you are logged in as nobody, you can execute chown otheruser directoryname? If that is so then PHP, which runs under Apache which runs as nobody,

RE: [PHP] chown ..opperation not permitted

2002-04-15 Thread Darren Gamble
Good day. As you've probably surmised, chown needs to be run as the root user, even if the file or directory in question is owned by the user wanting to make the change. Setting up sudo access should work properly. Ensure that the service is actually running as nobody and not another

Re: [PHP] chown ..opperation not permitted

2002-04-15 Thread Eugene Lee
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:54:51AM -0700, John Weez wrote: : : I have a script which makes a directory. This directory is owned by : nobody.nobody because that is what apache runs as. But, I want this : directory to be owned by a differrent user. So, After making the : directory i use the php

Re: [PHP] chown ..opperation not permitted

2002-04-15 Thread Erik Price
On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 02:05 PM, John Weez wrote: No, user nobody does not have access to chown command. This is part of my problem i suspect. So then your chown command's permissions do not allow everyone to execute it? If this is not the standard setup, so I would speak to your

Re: [PHP] chown ..opperation not permitted

2002-04-15 Thread Erik Price
On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 02:22 PM, Darren Gamble wrote: Setting up sudo access should work properly. Ensure that the service is actually running as nobody and not another unprivileged user. However, it should be mentioned that this is a very, very insecure method! The chown