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I have a shell script that I want to run using a PHP script from the web. The shell script works fine when run from the command line but when I run it from the web, the files created by the script are owned by "nobody" and the group is set to "nobody" as well. This in turn will not allow the shell script to execute completely and cleanly. Is there a way to set a default owner and group on files created in a certain directory? It seems like everything done from the web sets the owner and group to "nobody" and unfortunately this won't allow my script to complete. Can anyone offer any advice or suggestions? Thanks.
The script does have an suid of a normal user, but because it is run from the web it is being run by "nobody" per se. Which means the files that are created by the script have the owner and group of "nobody". If I run the script from a command line the files created are owned by the user running the script.
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