[Typo3-linux] Setting user to create files with

[Michael Stucki]

cam at dacha.ca wrote:
^^^^^^^^^^^^

> This is a general setup question . . . which might not even be within
> Typo3 intself.  Typo3 installs fine, however, whenever it creates new
> files (ie. through 'Filelist' or 'Ext Manager') it creates the files as
> the 'nobody' user in my web space.

Your webserver is running as 'nobody'. That's why.

> However, I don't have access to that user, and the system chokes when it
> attempts to later write to those files.  PHP is set to run in SAFE_MODE,
> so that any files owned by my default author, can't run any scripts
> installed by 'nobody'.

Install the stuff via FTP.
You could also try to use a PHP file manager and chmod the files to 666 and
the directories to 777. The owner would still be 'nobody'.

> What I want to do is have the files created as my user name (in this case,
> 'cam').  Is there a way to specify what user creates the new files?  Maybe
> a variable within Typo3, or perhaps it's a general PHP setting?

Think about that! Would be bad if this was possible.

> Any insight would be great.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#user

Cheers - michael