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Re: [cobalt-users] ownership problems



> I have a client who is using a UBB type board.  It's a knockoff of it but
> anyway, whenever a file is created or modified by the forum cgi's, it
> is created as user=nobody group=site11 , any ideas why? I can't figure it
> out, and he can't chown them when he needs to edit them. The group is
> right, he does belong to site11 but the owner is always nobody.  I need it
> to be his username.  I hope this can be fixed.

It's a cgi script... so go into the script and find the command that creates
the file and chowns it to 'nobody'. Change that part so that it chowns the
file to the siteadmin's login.
Or add a line if necessary; after it makes the file tell it to chown it.

CarrieB