Files, Permissions, Headaches

twister47

I've been searching for the last hour and cannot seem to find an answer to this problem.

I need to be able to set the owner properties of a file that is being uploaded so that it can be counted towards the file quota.

Basically my setup is as follows:

A user logins in, uploads a file, and this file is saved in a directory out of the public folder. The problem is that the group and the owner IDs are being set to 'nobody'. This means that the files are not being counted towards a users file quota since it is setup (and I cannot change this part) to count quotas based on file owners.

I tried using chgrp and chown but it says I dont have permission to. I cant figure out how to do this.

Any help would be great, thanks!

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kidgeek_dfw

To chown you need to be root...

I would seriously rethink this....
If you get hacked the hacker is going to have root to your box....

you'll need to run this with exec() or system() depending on what your doing...

Here's an only article scroll down below the ad....
Your answer is there...
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Security/Unix_Security/Q_20569275.html

good luck...

twister47

kidgeek_dfw wrote:
To chown you need to be root...

I would seriously rethink this....
If you get hacked the hacker is going to have root to your box....

you'll need to run this with exec() or system() depending on what your doing...

Here's an only article scroll down below the ad....
Your answer is there...
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Security/Unix_Security/Q_20569275.html

good luck...

I guess I'm not sure what you mean...

Is whats described in the article the method you would suggest NOT doing? Or something I suggested?

kidgeek_dfw

The only way I know that you can do this, is by accessing the server using root.
I would never suggest putting the root login into a PHP script.

Not saying I havn't done this, but if there is another way you could build your program where you didn't need chown or chgrp I think I'd lean that way 99%...