[Chicago-talk] chown inside a script

[Randal L. Schwartz]

>>>>> "Jay" == Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> writes:

Jay> But I don't think that will work in my case, because I'm doing it from
Jay> a web page, I had to create an suid link to chown, to call from my
Jay> cgi.

Ouch.  Really dangerous.  Can you explain more about why you need
to change the ownership of a file *during a web hit*?

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