but if i don't have the permissions to do that ... ???
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2002 11:35 AM
Subject: Re: [PHP] controlling ownership on file uploads ...
> On Thursday 28 November 2002 01:04, Adam Voigt wrote:
> > exec("/bin/chown newuser:newuser /path/to/file");
>
> The user running apache (in this case 'www') will most likely not have
the
> requisite permissions to perform that operation.
>
> > On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 12:03, Kenn Murrah wrote:
> > > Greetings.
> > >
> > > I've written a simple form to allow my clients to upload files to me,
and
> > > it works fine EXCEPT that the uploaded file is owned by "www" and I
while
> > > I can read the file, I don't have the necessary permissions to delete
it
> > > when done ...
>
> Use chmod() to make the file(s) rw by 'others'.
>
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