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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