shell_exec and apache rights

[bannister]

Hi there,

I am trying to create a directory from PHP after i create a useraccount. I use shell_exec and i managed to create that directory. Only when looking into the specific rights of that directory it seems that they have apache rights instead of that created useraccount.

Could anyone push me in the right direction perhaps? How can i solve this? I have read something about creating a user which has sufficient rights to chown and chmod new created accounts.

Perhaps someone has some kind of example please?

Kind regards, Bannister

[dalecosp]

If you're doing this through Apache, you're gonna get Apache's UID/GID/umask.

If you run PHP via cgi, and suexec, etc., you might be able to do what you want, but you are INVITING DISASTER!! (Please, please, please don't do this! 🙂 )

One viable alternative: if you own the server, create a cronjob running as a suitably enabled user, that looks for the dirs and does the changing itself....