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Georg Horn (horn@uni-koblenz.de)
Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:06:09 +0200 (CEST) 

From: Georg Horn <horn@uni-koblenz.de>
Message-Id: <199904221506.RAA04184@flens.uni-koblenz.de>
Subject: Re: your mail
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:06:09 +0200 (CEST)

Hi,

You wrote:

> I want to export an Database to an directory who is owned by user xy and
> group wwwmsql. The authorization is
> rwx to owner,group and --- to other.
> I use from an guarded Website about w3-msql:
>
> if(system("/usr/local/Hughes/bin/msqlexport -s';' db table >
> /www/test/usr/$file") < 0).....blah,blah,blah
>
> The msql-user is msql and group=wwwmsql.
>
>
> Problem : msqlexport can`t write in the directory because he runs as nobody
> and www.

yupp, cgi-scripts run with the permissions of the http daemon.
So you can set the owner/group of the dir to nobody.www, and perms to 755;
or put the nobody user into the wwwmsql group, set owner/group of the dir to
yx.wwwmsql (as you already have) and set the perms to 775.

This should work.

Bye,
Georg