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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