Posted by Bob Bedford on 07/03/07 09:43

Hi all,

I've a directory in wich I save pictures of items to sell. Those pictures
are uploaded by users and I've a ftp program that need to resize some of
them (too long to explain why).
Since the owner is httpd and I connect to the ftp server using an other
user, I can't modify them as they are protected (mode 0644) and I can't
change any group rights.

I can create a script (user httpd) that does change the mode to 0777 but
since I understand NOTHING about rights, it this idea a bad idea ??? what do
I risk ? my ftp doesn't have any guest access !

Thanks for helping.

Also joker question: what does "execute" mode mean ?

Bob

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