looks pretty straightforward with php's caveat to be careful to use octal...
chmod ("/somedir/somefile", 0755); // octal; correct value of mode
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> Maybe I wasn't clear in my previous message:
> What I want to do is: when you fill the form, record it
> to a file without 666 permitions. I mean: I don't want
> to have the file "opened" to everybody. In Perl it was
> possible (because it uses directly "system" user, which
> is similar to "root"), I want to make it possible using
> PHP. E.G.: The PHP-script receives the form, makes an
> internal authentication and creates or writes the file
> with 600 permitions.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Manuel Silva
>
>
> Quoting Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > So sprach »[EMAIL PROTECTED]« am
> > 2001-09-23 um 19:08:20 +0100 :
> > > Is there any possibility to write to files as
> > "httpd"
> > > or "system" (which can write to files even
> > with "000"
> > > permitions)?
> >
> > With 000 permissions? Is "system" an alias for
> > root? If not, then it's
> > not possible.
> >
> > But normally the files should only need access
> > for the group running the
> > webserver process. Here at home, it's
> > apache/apache.
> >
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