Re: general/5892:Can't change uid of a file

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The following reply was made to PR general/5892; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: vsolve apache <vs...@yahoo.com>
To: gaspari@ub.edu.ar, submit@bugz.apache.org
Cc: apbugs@Apache.Org
Subject: Re: general/5892:Can't change uid of a file
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:06:09 -0800 (PST)

 Hi,
 
 >>I'm trying to change the UID of file created with a
 script, but I get "chown: 
 >>file: Not owner".
 >>I have the file and the script:
 >>/www/cgi-bin> ls -l
 >>total 2
 >>-rwxr-xr-x   1 www      www          175 Mar 16
 09:49 cambio.cgi*
 >>-rw-r--r--   1 www      www            0 Mar 16
 09:36 prueba
 >>cambio.cgi contains:
 >>/www/cgi-bin> cat cambio.cgi
 >>#!/bin/sh
 >>chown gaspari:webmail prueba
 >>echo Content-Type: text/plain
 >>echo
 >>....
 >>HTTPD is running as www:www
 >>The script runs fine, but i can't get chown work.
 >>Does anyone known 
 >>what i'm doing wrong?
 
 
 chown command with both user and group ownership
 changed works fine when the script is run with httpd
 running as root.
  
 If you are running httpd as non-root user ie.,as www
 user, you can assign access of one of your files to a
 group, but unless you are running httpd as root, you
 cannot assign one of your files to appear to have been
 either created by or owned by another user. 
 
 regards,
 vsolve_apache
 Visolve.com
 
 
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