file ownerships

[jakyl]

<PRE>i have a massive number of files that i uploaded, and i want to change the perms to 0777. i wrote this recursive function to do it, but it gives me the error: "Warning: chmod failed: Operation not permitted ..."

i can easily chmod() any files that i uploaded via a script (uid=102), but the ones i uploaded via ftp (CUTEFTP) have a completely different uid (uid=10xx).

i cannot chown() with the script. same error.

THE QUESTION IS: is there a way to have the script create a file as a user, or "log in" as a specific user for the duration of a script?

NOT SOLUTIONS: chown(), manual effort, editing any system files
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[Anon]

Are you ftping as a user other than the one you want the files owned by? How is it that the files are owned by the wrong uid? Why not login as the user associated with the correct uid???

[jakyl]

i don't know of a way to "log in" as a specific user in php. that's the question. the default user within a script is designated by the web host (no, i don't have my own server), and i therefore can't upload the files using that uid.

if i did have my own server, everything would be easy because i could just log in as root and easily chown everything. quite easy on *ix systems.

[jakyl]

i either

a) want the script to execute as the same person i uploaded the stuff to, or

b) want to make the default user of the script to own all the files.