On 2008-02-28, Fro wrote:
>
> the operating system (Unix) considers a php-server as a user with name
> "nobody". For example, if my php-script saves a file uploaded by a
> user, the owner of the file will be "nobody". I would like to know if
> "nobody" is considered as "group" or "others" (in terms of the "chmod"
> command)? In other words, is "chmod g+w dirname" sufficient to allow
> to "nobody" to write in the directory "dirname" or should I use "chmod
> o+w dirname"?

If 'nobody' is a member of the group that owns "dirname", then
group write access is enough, otherwise it needs world (i.e.,
other) write permissions.


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