On Sun, October 8, 2006 7:47 am, Ron Piggott (PHP) wrote: > When I upload a file into an application I am writing with the HTML > form > command > > <INPUT NAME="userfile" TYPE="file"> > > and then give the PHP command > > move_uploaded_file( $userfile , $destination_file_name); > > the owner of the file is 'www'. Is there any way I am able to > automatically change the owner of the file to my FTP login identity > (for > example 'rpiggott') Yes, no, sort of, maybe, and exactly how depends. See, here's the thing. If you, rpiggott, or if www, could just chown (change owner) of any file to anything they wanted, that would be Very Bad. Cuz you could change a file to be owned by 'root', then chmod it to be run *AS* root, and then you essentially *are* 'root'. And that's bad. If you don't know why that's bad, you're way behind on your reading... Anyway, here's what you can do, that should work no matter what else is happening on the machine: User www can make the file world or group readable with http://php.net/chmod when the file is created. If rpiggott and www are in a common group, group readable is enough; If not, you have to use world readable. Use group if you can. Once www's file is readable by rpiggott, then rpiggott can copy the file in a cron job or shell script that www can execute, or... When rpiggott copies www's file into a new file, then rpiggott is creating the file, and it should be owned by rpiggott. Another option, if you happen to have 'root' on the machine (which would be kinda scary given the original question, but there it is) you can make a root-owned script to just chown the files, and run it in a cron job. Before you do all this -- Think carefully. Sometimes changing ownership has broad and drastic implications. You may want to just have www chmod the file so rpiggott can read it or even write it, and then you don't have to go so far as chown. As a general principle, always do the minimum needed to get the task done, when it comes to chmod/chown. -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So? -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
