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 Posted by Joel Fireman on 12/05/07 05:07 
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 21:05:25 -0500, Jerry Stuckle 
<jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote: 
 
>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? 
>>  
>>  
> 
>If your system is set up properly, inly the owner or root can chown() a  
>file. 
 
And?
 
  
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