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Posted by Joel Fireman on 12/04/07 23:34
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 23:22:24 +0100, Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de>
wrote:
>.oO(Joel Fireman)
>
>>On a Linux server, a web page lets users enter items to an order
>>sheet. When they finish, (besides the mysql db updates) the order data
>>is emailed to the user as confirmation, a copy is emailed to the
>>fulfillment people, and two files are written for pickup by a third
>>party, in the third party's directory.
>>
>>Because the files are owned by apache, the third party cannot delete
>>them, even when they are chmod'ed to 777. I tried to chown() the files
>>to the third party's user, but no go.
>
>The third party also needs write access to the directory where the files
>are stored.
>
>Micha
Shazam!! Somewhere in the midst of flailing on this I had root owning
the 3rd party's dir... hmmmpff...
Well, at least he can delete the files after he reads them, now... and
that's all we really care about in this case.
But, if apache owns the file, how come he can't chown() it?
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