On 06Jan2010 01:21, Victor Subervi <victorsube...@gmail.com> wrote: | I have a script that is called via the web. This script writes another | script that is also called by the web, which in turn needs to have execution | privileges. The problem is that the programmatically created file is owned | by apache.apache and thus doesn't have execution privileges. I've tried | os.chown(...) but this throws an OSError. I understand that chown'ing | programmatically opens a big security hole. However, setting the gid to give | apache execution privileges isn't any better. What do you suggest?
Are you sure you don't want chmod? -- Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Winter is gods' way of telling us to polish. - Peter Harper <bo...@freenet.carleton.ca> <harp...@algonquinc.on.ca> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
