user: nobody... hmm... cannot work with

Anon

My ISP recently changed their Apache settings, and everything is now run as the user 'nobody'. It's great for basic security, however, I have a new problem:

I have a complex PHP script that writes files that are uploaded as well as files created by the script. Now it outputs them and they are obviously owned by the user and group 'nobody' since they're created by the web process... So I'm unable to overwrite them, edit them, or anything except through the web interface. I can also delete the files created by 'nobody'.

Does anyone know of any way for me to get these files owned by my user, or am I just stuck?

Thanks for any assistance,

Jeff

lawnmowerman

Well, one thing you could do is to chmod() the files so that you can change them yourself. The problem is, so will everyone else on the server.

Check out:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/manual/function.chmod.php

You could use 0666 or 0777 to make the file owner, group, and world read/write or read/write/execute.

Links to chgrp() and chown() are included there which may work or may not, depending on the group(s) your user is in as well as the nobody user.

Hope this helps.

-Rich