From: Martin Stannard <martins@...>
Date: 2004-05-19T06:51:47+09:00
Subject: Re: writable

On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 06:18, paul vudmaska wrote:
> Martin Stannard <martins@aardvark.net.au> wrote in message news:<1084887383.14209.10.camel@beyond>...

> > The method I've used is to have a file upload directory with permission
> > 755 and owned by the webserver user, in my case:
> > chown apache:apache directory_name
> 
> This is making better sense to me - owner apache...
> but in the script file(not from the web) i use the ticks 
> `chown apache:apache dir_name`
> #>invalid user name
> 
> so i did 
> #>users - just guessing...im a *nix rookie
> and bepweb was listed...
> 
> `chown bepweb dir_name`
> 
> #>Operation not permitted
> 
> Bummer
> 
> > 
> >
> Sweet this is much simpler than what i was doing. My next host, i
> hope, is running 1.8 so i can use FileUtils
> 
> > Actually I just tried it with 744 and that works too.
> > 
> > Anyone else see any security problems with that?
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > Martin
> 
> Thanks for the help,paul
> 
> OT: I told folks i was checking out hub.org. Cant recommend them,
> unfortunately. If i find a good host i'll post. I'm currently checking
> out a host that is giving me a dedicated box for 29 a month....not big
> hw but adequate...i hope...

Hi Paul,

I just set up the directory beforehand manually - the chown is just
typed on the command line. Do you have to change permissions from within
your script?

Try rootr.net for hosting.

gotta run,

Martin