On Tuesday 19 September 2006 22:22, Rahul S. Johari wrote:
> Ok, my code follows. Basically I'm printing ...
> my Owner/Group, the existing Owner/Group of the file, the Owner/Group of
> the file After trying to change it.
Does apache have write access to write to yer file, that goes for either o+r
or that group or user is apache.
>
> The most interesting thing is... I get absolutely no errors, no warnings,
> and everything prints out as if everything worked... Except that its' not
> actually changing anything at all!!
>
> The fact that it's not changing anything is a secondary issue... What
> surprises me is that chown,chgrp or chmod doesn't give any error or warning
> for the fact that it's not doing anything. Except the is_writeable() which
> actually prints "Is not writeable".... The if(chown) etcetera continue
> printing as if they changed the Owner/Group/Perms.... Even though they
> didn't.
>
> code:
>
> if (!is_writable("/home/folder/documents/path/osmd.dbf")) {
> echo "Is not writeable<BR><BR>";
> }
>
> $fileowneruidb=fileowner("/home/folder/documents/path/osmd.dbf");
> echo $fileowneruidb;
> $fileownerarrayb=posix_getpwuid($fileowneruidb);
> $fileownerb=$fileownerarrayb['name'];
> echo "<BR>Owner is $fileownerb<BR><BR>";
>
> echo "My owner :".getmyuid()."<BR>";
> if(chown("/home/folder/documents/path/osmd.dbf", getmyuid())) {
> $fileowneruida=fileowner("/home/folder/documents/path/osmd.dbf");
> echo $fileowneruida;
> $fileownerarraya=posix_getpwuid($fileowneruida);
> $fileownera=$fileownerarraya['name'];
> echo "<BR>Owner changed to $fileownera<BR><BR>";
> }
>
> $filegrpb=filegroup("/home/folder/documents/path/osmd.dbf");
> echo $filegrpb;
> $filegrparrayb=posix_getgrgid($filegrpb);
> $filegrpb=$filegrparrayb['name'];
> echo "<BR>Group is $filegrpb<BR><BR>";
>
> echo "My owner :".getmygid()."<BR>";
> if(chgrp("/home/folder/documents/path/osmd.dbf", getmygid())) {
> $filegrpa=filegroup("/home/folder/documents/path/osmd.dbf");
> echo $filegrpa;
> $filegrparraya=posix_getgrgid($filegrpa);
> $filegrpa=$filegrparraya['name'];
> echo "<BR>Group changed to $filegrpa<BR><BR>";
> }
>
> if (chmod("/home/folder/documents/path/osmd.dbf", 0755)) {
> echo "Mode changed to 0755<BR><BR>";
> }
>
> On 9/19/06 12:09 PM, "Steve Edberg" <sbedberg@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > fileperms() perhaps?
> >
> > http://php.he.net/manual/en/function.fileperms.php
> >
> > You'd have to compare the return value against the uid/gid the
> > webserver runs as, which can be obtained via getmyuid()/getmygid():
> >
> > http://php.he.net/manual/en/function.getmyuid.php
> >
> > Alternatively, you could check if the file exists, then attempt to
> > chown/chgrp it. If the chown()/chgrp() returns false, you probably
> > don't have permission.
> >
> > steve
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