change the owner that php writes files as

LucidParody

Hi, I'm looking for a way to make it so that when php writes a file, instead of writing it as 'nobody' it looks at who owns the parent directory and writes the file as that owner. Any ideas?

Thanks

bpat1434

nope... can't be done, at least not at time of writing. You can chmod() the file so you can write to it, but if you want to specify the user, use the FTP functions PHP comes with. Otherwise, it's going to be the user Apache is running PHP as.

Drakla

If your server supports it (suexec) you can run php as a CGI script that'll give you the same permissions as your account.

Put this in your cgi-bin, name it whoami.cgi, or something, then make it executable - see what it prints

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
echo 'whoami: ';
system("/usr/bin/whoami");
?>

bradgrafelman

What about [man]chown[/man] ? What about using [man]system[/man] or [man]shell_exec[/man] or [man]exec[/man] (etc.) and running the 'chown' command?

As to geting the owner, I think [man]fileowner[/man] works on directories..?

EDIT: Also.. what exactly are you trying to do here? Perhaps groups would work to your advantage as well.. ?

LucidParody

Basically we have a shared hosting enviroment and the script we're trying to use writes the users email as nobody. The problem is if it writes the files as nobody then our other script which uses uids to log disquota cannot keep track of how much the user is using in disk space.

bpat1434

folders... folders.... folders....