[H-GEN] finding which user executes a script

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

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"Greg Fairbrother" <greg at greg.hm> writes:

> Sorry if this is a dum question, but how do I find out what user is
> executing a php script, It's to do with my previous post about php and file
> uploading,

My advice would be to write a small PHP script that prints a message
saying "this script was run by <...>" where the brackets are replaced
by the result of whichever function you call in PHP to find out the
userid of the process.

> if I know what user is executing the php script (eg. apache or
> nobody) then I could add them to the group who owns the directory,
> and just give that group write permissions?

I would recommend giving things a lot more thought.  That may be
enough, but you could be opening a huge can of worms, too.
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