If you use the latest version of Apache, you can build suExec with it, which will run your CGI scripts as the user you specify... and if you are running in a ~user directory, it will assume the uid and gid of that user.
Hope this helps.
getmyuid
Description
int getmyuid ( void )Returns the user ID of the current script, or FALSE on error.
See also getmygid(), getmypid(), get_current_user(), getmyinode(), and getlastmod().
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gls at home dot shurson dot net
18-Oct-2003 04:27
18-Oct-2003 04:27
sRp at srparish dot net
04-Apr-2000 05:48
04-Apr-2000 05:48
After running into this problem, i wrote a program which you can install as setuid root in you php safemode exec dir. (defined in php3.ini) You then can do system() calls to this program to change the ownership of file, in a fassion such so that it shouldn't allow people to break the security of your box. You can get the program at http://srparish.net/scripts/chuid-1.0.tar.gz