Vaibhav Sibal wrote: > The scenario is, I made a login interface wherein i accept usernames > and passwords from users and after comparing them to a database I log > them in. The server runs Linux Fedora Core 2. Now I want to know > whether there can be a scenario wherein I can make the logged in user > have access to files of which he/she is the owner of or the file > belongs to a group whose membership he/she has. Is this possible ? > because as far as my knowledge goes, its only possible to give access > to users to specific files if the user logs in to a particular shell. > Please provide some help on this if you can. Thanks in advance ! You could compare their username that you are using to the username in /etc/passwd and compare that to http://php.net/fileowner If you control both /etc/passwd and the database, and have the usernames synchronized, you could write your PHP script so that people can only "see" or "read" the files owned by them. With a bit more effort, you could also compare groups and group permissions with http://php.net/filegroup You would probably need http://php.net/exec and do something like: $command = "groups $username"; to find out what groups the user is a member of, and then go through /etc/passwd to find out the group IDs and compare those to the output of 'filegroup' So it *could* be done, but it will be a bit of work. You may want to Google for "PHP fileowner filegroup" or similar and see if there's an existing script out there for it. http://phpclasses.org should be searched in particular. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
