chown file from php script

[cli_man]

I am not sure how to do this but I need to be able to create a file and then chown it to a different user. Of course all my php scripts are run by user nobody so the files show that they are owned by nobody. How can a do a chown on a file from a php script?

[toma42]

RTFM

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.chown.php

[cli_man]

I guess I was not clear enough in my first post above, The chown can only be run by superuser and using sudo is too much of a security problem on my server, is there any workarounds that anyone here has done, (calling a script, using a .htaccess file, etc...) I would rather not use cgi for this, but calling say a perl script would be fine. I didn't know if you could run a script (php, or perl, etc...) as a different user.

The commands I need to run are not ones that need root access but that do run under a different user, i.e creating a new user in vpopmail or something like that. I am programming a custom interface for a virtual hosting server.

[toma42]

You could put the command into a db queue then have a cron job that reads the queue every 5 min. or so and processes your chown or whatever you need.

This is a pretty good way to seperate tasks between system users (nobody and postmaster, for instance).

[cli_man]

Thats what I was looking for, thank you for the suggestion.