Posted by bxd on 07/29/07 15:29

On Jul 29, 5:30 pm, Kurda Yon <kurda...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am not sure that I understood correctly. Is the logic as following?
> All those, and only those, users which communicate with my server via
> my php-script are seen by the server as 'nobody'.

Something like that.
To put it another way, your webserver has access to the file system as
'nobody' (or whatever stands for your configuration).
Web users send requests to your webserver which handles them
appropriately (reads/writes files).

> So, in the case if
> ONLY 'nobody' has permission to write and execute the directory, the
> content of the directory can be changed ONLY via my php-script. Do I
> correctly understood?

Correct.

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