|  | Posted by The Natural Philosopher on 12/04/07 23:47 
Joel Fireman wrote:> 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?
 >
 apache can chown it.
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