Hello,
I recently switched from a commercial upload bean to commons-
fileupload, and am very happy with its performance except in one
respect: File ownership rigidity. We're running Tomcat 5.5 with about
25 contexts (our clients). Tomcat is being run by root, so all of my
upload directories must be owned by root for the upload to work for
some reason. But at the same time, I need to allow users to use an
FTP client to upload really large files, or delete old files that are
no longer used. If the file was uploaded via http (using fileupload),
this is not possible because the uploaded file will be owned by root.
I've thought about several possible solutions, but they all have
unwanted side effects:
1. Run a cron script to chown all files to root.user periodically,
chmod g+w as well. The problem here is immediacy, FTP access to any
files uploaded through a client's website will be owned by root.root,
they won't be able to delete the file until the script runs next.
2. Set each Tomcat context to run as a different user. Sounds like
the best approach, apache can do this, but I can't find any info on
how to do it with Tomcat. Is this even possible?
3. Write a file manager app. This would eliminate the need for FTP
access, but it would take a considerable amount of time to write the
file manager app, test it and deploy.
How have other fileupload users dealt with this problem?
Thank You,
Troy
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