Help : PHP Directory functions

[Anon]

i used,
"mkdir" PHP file system function to create a directory - but it ayways creates a directory with user "nobody" ..now i want to create directory with a specific user say "www" and not "nobody" (default)...how can i change the user...(as only superuser can change the user - and i don't want that..)

so, the quetsion is

can i create a directory with PHP with a specified user ???

please help
-ashish

[Anon]

Unlikely - your webserver runs as nobody so there's no way to change the owner.

You could write a cron job as root that changes the directory to a different owner periodically.

[Anon]

thanks tim !!
and needless to say,
" we'll recover the crash soon " !!!
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