From: "Travis Low" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > John W. Holmes wrote: > > From: "Nirnimesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >>I have a problem regarding using my php scripts to write files to my > >>account. > >>We know that php runs as user apache. Now giving write permissions to > >>apache for uploading files to my account essentially means that I have to > >>give write permissions for apache (i.e. o+w). Now, does that not mean that > >>any user which is can run php scripts can have access to my account? > > > > Yes (well, has access to that directory). > > > >>Is there any configuration setting that I'm missing. > > > > Safe mode, open_basedir, etc. > > Is there a way to cause PHP scripts to run as the user and group associated > with the apache virtual host?
If you use PHP as a CGI, you can do this. I believe I've also heard that Apache2 has ways of doing this also (with PHP as a module), but I don't know the details. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
