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Offhand, the user/program executing the change need to be a part of the group www and the file must have +w permissions set for the group, then it should work.
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Offhand, the user/program executing the change need to be a part of the group www and the file must have +w permissions set for the group, then it should work.

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You can make shid directory and use umask 0007 inside php, so you have special group where to add users to write web files.
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You can make shid directory and use umask 0007 inside php, so you have special group where to add users to write web files.

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It wasn't so much a solution as telling me what I was trying wouldn't work but offering no suggestion of how I might otherwise achieve the same affect.
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It wasn't so much a solution as telling me what I was trying wouldn't work but offering no suggestion of how I might otherwise achieve the same affect.

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Files uploaded via http and moved via a PHP script are currently given the owner www:www.<br />
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I need these files to belong to a different user so they count towards their file quota and not toward www's.<br />
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I intend to use PHP's chmod function to change the owner but I appreciate that without some changing of privileges on the server this will not be possible.<br />
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The server is running FreeBSD. I have root access. What permissions do I need to add/change on the server to allow PHP, running as www, to change the owner of files belonging to www:www?
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Files uploaded via http and moved via a PHP script are currently given the owner www:www.

I need these files to belong to a different user so they count towards their file quota and not toward www's.

I intend to use PHP's chmod function to change the owner but I appreciate that without some changing of privileges on the server this will not be possible.

The server is running FreeBSD. I have root access. What permissions do I need to add/change on the server to allow PHP, running as www, to change the owner of files belonging to www:www?

Change permission of http uploaded file FROM www using PHP chmod function on FreeBSD

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