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 operator was designed more for PHP command-line scripts that > would > be run as another user. You may want to re-evaluate why you are > changing > ownerships of directories from a web page, and determine if there is a > safer, more secure way of doing what you want. Yes, I wouldn't give "nobody" privileges to do anything with sudo. You're better off making "nobody" a member of the same group as the other user, and using chgrp. erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
