ownership and permissions

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I cannot delete a couple of folders on the server as the have the owner
'nobody'. All I am doing is making the folders with

mkdir($customer_id, 0755);


Now is there a way to set the ownership when I created the folder. What is
the appropriate folder levels for securoty (755, 640?)

Thanks,

R.

On 6/6/07, blueboy <ross@aztechost.com> wrote:
>
> t: 0131 553 3935 | m:07816 996 930 | ross@blue-fly.co.uk |
> http://www:blue-fly.co.uk
>
>
> I cannot delete a couple of folders on the server as the have the owner
> 'nobody'. All I am doing is making the folders with
>
> mkdir($customer_id, 0755);
>
>
> Now is there a way to set the ownership when I created the folder. What is
> the appropriate folder levels for securoty (755, 640?)
>
> Thanks,
>
> R.
>
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If you search the archives, I wrote out a very long post on file
and folder security a few weeks back. Also, chances are, you can't
chown() the files with your PHP scripts, but you can do either....

<?
exec('rm -fR '.$customer_id.' >> 2>&1',$ret,$xc);
$xc == 1 ? echo $ret : '';
?>

.... or, by far easier....

<? unlink($customer_id); ?>

Since your existing scripts run as user: nobody, the file delete
script will, as well, meaning the files and folders that were created
via the web can be removed via the web.

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blueboy wrote:
> t: 0131 553 3935 | m:07816 996 930 | ross@blue-fly.co.uk |
> http://www:blue-fly.co.uk
>
>
> I cannot delete a couple of folders on the server as the have the owner
> 'nobody'. All I am doing is making the folders with
>
> mkdir($customer_id, 0755);
>
>
> Now is there a way to set the ownership when I created the folder. What is
> the appropriate folder levels for securoty (755, 640?)
>
> Thanks,
>
> R.
>
>
If they are set to 600, and they were created by the web server, then
you won't be able to delete them under your own username, using ftp,
which is why filezilla doesn't work. But you should be able to write a
php script which can delete them when it is called from your browser.
Before you can remove the directory, you will first have to delete all
the files it holds:

$dir = "images";
foreach($files as $file) {
unlink ($dir. '/' .$file);
}

remdir($dir);

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