chown from www so i can delete

Anon

[argh, searching is down]
i want to change owner on uploaded images so i (or another) can delete them but am having no luck. if www is the owner, i can't delete. would it work to just chmod the uploaded files right after they're processed?

also, this doesn't seem to be working. any ideas would be appreciated.

<? }elseif ($type="p"){
?>
<B>Contributed Photos:</B></TD><TD>
<SELECT name="file_list" size="5">
<?php
do some stuff;
?>
</SELECT>

<? }else {
print "some other stuff";
}
?>

--many thanks

Anon

Well the problem with you code is that you are using a single = in the statement:

<? }elseif ($type="p"){

It should be a == sign, the above statement sets the variable $type to "p" which always returns true.

As for changing the owner you can't do that. Chown is a root program and www can't run it so you php script can't run it. You should be able to chmod the file to whatever you want. What you need to do is get your user to be in the same group as the www user and then chmod 774 on the file when it is uploaded. So that anyone in the same group as www will have full permissions on any file uploaded.

webnick

that helps but....... this is a university server so these guys are both busy & dialed.

the uploads are owned by "WWW" and my script "UAC" (http root). I always have trouble with chmod but i should at least be able to delete the files? (user "meyerj")

any reccomendations on getting the script i wrote ("UAC") to act as "WWW"? (there are a bunch of different user ids for each owner.)

here's the code; anny help would sure be appreciated.

-nick

if ($type == "r" ){
if (isset($file_to_delete)) {
if ( $file_to_delete!="" && $file_list!="" && $user_name!="" && $user_email!="" ) {
rename $source_path/$file_to_delete", "/$destination/$file_to_delete");
mail ($sendto, $subject, $heads_up, $header);
$fp = fopen( /logs/admin_list.txt","a");
fwrite( $fp, "$info \n");
fclose( $fp );
$success = "<P align=\"center\"><FONT color=\"navy\"><B>Success! You can return to the routes page <A href=\"http://www.uac.pdx.edu/routes/\">here</A>.</B></FONT><BR>\n";
} else { $error = TRUE; }
} # - end ifset