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@NogDogMar 02.2008 — #The "nobody" user is the web server user under whom your PHP scripts are executed when PHP is run as a web server module. Therefore, any files created by your PHP scripts will be owned by "nobody" (who is, in fact, somebody ? ). Therefore, your two options (not including intervention by somebody with root permission on the server) are to have a PHP script do the deletion via unlink(), or having the PHP script that creates the file in the first place set the permission to 0666 or 0777 via chmod() so that any user can delete it.
How can I delete files owned by nobody?
I’ve got FCKeditor installed.
When you upload an image with it: it stores it as a file owned by nobody.
I’ve got a separate piece of PHP code that I am having coded for me.
We’ve run into a small problem: it can’t delete nobody owned files.
No good to me: I need to be able to *just
I’ve googled and the only way so far I can see is that I have to be logged in as root and then I can delete on the command line.
I’m screwing my head over this!
What’s the answer.
Thanks.
OM
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@NogDogMar 02.2008 — #The "nobody" user is the web server user under whom your PHP scripts are executed when PHP is run as a web server module. Therefore, any files created by your PHP scripts will be owned by "nobody" (who is, in fact, somebody ? ). Therefore, your two options (not including intervention by somebody with root permission on the server) are to have a PHP script do the deletion via unlink(), or having the PHP script that creates the file in the first place set the permission to 0666 or 0777 via chmod() so that any user can delete it.