using php as "somebody" LOL

[Parham]

when running php scripts from the net, they are run as user "nobody".  Does anyone know how to somehow to change this?  I've got a directory manager I've created which is limited because user access is restricted to files that are only owned by user "nobody".  I've heard people that ran php scripts though a perl frontend to get more access to read/write.

[Zef Hemel]

If you use mod_php you can't run scripts as a user different than nobody, or well, let's put it this way, php always runs under the same user that Apache runs under. If you choose for running PHP through CGI then you can run scripts under the account of the user. I'm not sure how to do this exactly, but it is possible. But anyway, you lose quite some performance that way.

[Douglas]

Run suEXEC, that does help, also

[Zef Hemel]

Ah yes, indeed, that's what I meant