I am trying to write a script that will create a fill and then change the ownership to someone else. However, I keep getting an error (using the chown function) and I am guessing it is because PHP is not running as a superuser. Does anyone know how to set PHP to run as a superuser? Or any other suggestions which may get this working? Thanks for the help!

Is that a good idea? It would open up a *huge* security risk in your server :-/

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What error message are you getting? Can you post your code, please?

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I wasn't even aware that you could CHOWN a file with PHP. mkdir(), chmod(), rmdir(), and other's, but not chown()

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Yep - http://www.php.net/chown

But PHP does have to run with superuser permissions, which, I agree, creates some security concerns.

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Hi,

You would need to either:

a. Run apache as root (very bad idea and apache won't let you do this unless you recompile it with a special flag).

b. Run your PHP via CGI that is setuid root. Could be a big exploit waiting to happen if you don't lock it down properly.

Cheers,

Alex
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