[Wolves] is there any way to write to a file without chmod 777

[Philip Harper]

Nope...lol!  I thought of that one, as in when you create PHP session 
files and they are writable by the web user.  Still not possble as the 
user is just editing the pages and not actually creating them.

Stuart Langridge wrote:
> On 9/26/07, Philip Harper <ph004h7245 at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>   
>> Well, yes....if you had access to a shell where you can issue chgroup,
>> chown and all that jazz, but what I'm talking about is a bog standard
>> hosting panel, where at most it will let you chmod the file, and really
>> this is beyond the average non-technical user.
>>     
>
> If you have the webserver write the file in the first place then it'll
> be owned by them...
>
> Aq.
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