On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:21:05AM -0600, Jay Blanchard wrote: > You had already stated the owner/group...I want to know what the > read/write permissions are. For 'nobody' to be able to write to a > directory that directory must be owned by 'nobody' > > drw------- (chmod 600) > > If the group is 'nobody' it must also have permission > > drw-rw--- (chmod 660)
Of course, user nobody had read/write permission and the group too. > These are called absolute permissions and are oft misunderstood. The > first digit is the owner's permission, the second is the group's, and > the third is everyone else. Numbers range from 0 (no permissions) to 7 > (read write and execute permissions). > > In order to copy a file to a directory the 'person' must have write > permissions. As an administrator with 15 years experience of Unix, I think I understand this! ;-) Anyway, I solved my problem - I just needed to tweak open_base_dir in php.ini. -- Aj. Sys. Admin / Developer -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
