From mmburke at gwu.edu Wed Oct 22 14:25:24 2008 From: mmburke at gwu.edu (Matthew M. Burke) Date: Wed Oct 22 13:28:41 2008 Subject: [Sputnik-list] Re: Sputnik-list Digest, Vol 15, Issue 1 In-Reply-To: E1KseFr-0005gS-Q5@mail.luaforge.net References: E1KseFr-0005gS-Q5@mail.luaforge.net Message-ID: 48FF53F4.9050406@gwu.edu

sputnik-list-request@lists.luaforge.net wrote:

Sputnik writes files as whatever user your web server runs as... In your case, I am guessing Apache is running as www and is not configured to set user ID properly when calling CGI scripts.

If you don't want to bother the admin, write a cgi script that changes permissions of the files, or use something like "PHP Shell". Or ask

Kaivin,

It may or may not be worth your time tracking this down, but Gallery (a PHP photo album application) comes with a script to handle a similar situation. You might be able to adapt it for this purpose.