Re: [PHP-INST] apache permissions with php 4.3.2

2003-06-17 Thread Jacob Marble
I understand that, the thing is that it _is_ deleting files owned exclusively by root. The only thing I can figure is that I happen to be a www client on the first apache process. "ps aux": root 204 0.0 0.1 2240 1288 ttyp0SJun16 0:00 -bash root 15892 0.0 0.5 6920 4320 ?

Re: [PHP-INST] apache permissions with php 4.3.2

2003-06-17 Thread Adam Voigt
You can start apache with "apachectl start" as root just fine, you don't need to su to the apache user. And you must be mis-understanding the permissions or something cause if you do infact have apache running as a seperate user, there's no way it can delete a file owned by root unless maybe the us

[PHP-INST] apache permissions with php 4.3.2

2003-06-17 Thread Jacob Marble
Hey all- I'm writing some PHP scripts that have the ability to delete, rename, upload, etc. files to the webserver. It's a simple on-line file manager for some family members. The question: I don't want to allow apache to delete certain files, specifically files that are owned by root. Bu