On Tue, April 25, 2006 11:16 am, tedd wrote: > A while back I was persuaded by this illustrious group into thinking > that placing images in a file system was superior to placing them in > mySQL -- after all, what could go wrong with a file system solution, > right? > > So I did. > > Now, I have a small problem. Unfortunately, most of the images I've > uploaded have permissions set at chmod 600 (rx- --- ---). Interesting > enough, considering that all the images were all uploaded with the > same script, not all of the images have the same permission problem > -- that's odd. > > In any event, I can't back-up, download, copy, change permissions, or > do anything with the chmod 600 group. Any suggestions as to what I > can do with these files? You may not be able to do anything with those files logged in as 'tedd' (or whatever) but the PHP script you wrote ran as a specific user (probably 'www' or 'nobody') and THAT user can do whatever it wants to the files, because that user 'owns' them. So you can write a PHP admin script to copy or change permissions on the existing files. You'll have to surf to it for the same user to be running that script as uploaded the files. You could also ALTER your upload script for future uploads to change the http://php.net/umask before you upload files, and http://php.net/chmod the files after they are uploaded, to provide access to the 'w'orld or a 'g'roup if your webhost (or you) can put the PHP user and 'tedd' in the same group. As far as some of the files being different, those are probably files you uploaded "by hand" during testing, or your script had, at some point, calls to umask and or chmod in it, that you altered, or only called under certain circumstances. It's also possible that you changed the permissions on the containing directory at some point, which change "trickled down" to the new files created within that directory after that point in time. Once you understand how/why the Unix permissions are what they are, it's pretty trivial to figure out how to get the files to do what you want. -- 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
