> > First easiest solution: Have you tried playing with groups? Have the > per-user directories owned by the same group that the webserver runs > as ( I run my apache as apache:apache ) and chmod 664 ... > > Before doing that - run a test LWP program to see if getstore checks > permissions on the target directory itself, or relies on the > underlying filesystem calls to fail?
Yeah -- I think groups is the easiest way to do it ... here's how I tested. 1) Create a new user and group to hold the test program # useradd -g testuser -c'Test User' .... testuser 2) Create a directory to simulate the per-user directory # mkdir -p /tmp/users/homer 3) set permissions and ownership on that test directory # chown homer:testuser /tmp/users/homer # chmod 775 /tmp/users/homer (Note I made a mistake in my earlier email .. 664 is a Bad Idea for directories .. my bad)) 4) Become testuser # su testuser % whoami testuser % groups testuser % perl /tmp/getstore.pl 200 at getstore.pl line 11. 5) Celebrate success! ......................... BEGIN PERL PROGRAM ........................... #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use LWP::Simple; use constant URL => 'http://cluon.com/lawrence/index.en.html'; use constant FILE => '/tmp/users/homer/index.html'; warn getstore( URL, FILE ) || die "Could not get the file"; .......................... END PERL PROGRAM ............................ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Lawrence Statton - [EMAIL PROTECTED] s/aba/c/g Computer software consists of only two components: ones and zeros, in roughly equal proportions. All that is required is to sort them into the correct order. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
