Creating a directory

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Unix / 1.6

I’m trying to allow clients to create directories for uploading files
from the web using this command…
Dir.mkdir(PATH + sFolderPath + folder,0007)
^^^^

It creates the directory but when i try to write to the directory I get
a permission denied error. Is’nt 0007 read / write and execute for everyone?

I cant even get into the dir with ssh. But i can delete it with an ftp
client. hmmmm…

What am i doing wrong?

Thanks, Paul

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No, it’s read/write/execute for others. If you are the owner of the
directory, “others” doesn’t include you.

HTH,
Andre

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On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 17:07, Paul Vudmaska wrote:

Is’nt 0007 read / write and execute for everyone?

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Paul Vudmaska wrote:

Unix / 1.6

I’m trying to allow clients to create directories for uploading files
from the web using this command…
Dir.mkdir(PATH + sFolderPath + folder,0007)
^^^^

It creates the directory but when i try to write to the directory I get
a permission denied error. Is’nt 0007 read / write and execute for
everyone?

0007 is read/write for everyone but the owner/group
What you probably want is 0700 (R/W for the owner).

Cheers.
Ed

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Edgardo E. Hames wrote:

Paul Vudmaska wrote:

Unix / 1.6

I’m trying to allow clients to create directories for uploading files
from the web using this command…
Dir.mkdir(PATH + sFolderPath + folder,0007)
^^^^

It creates the directory but when i try to write to the directory I
get a permission denied error. Is’nt 0007 read / write and execute
for everyone?

0007 is read/write for everyone but the owner/group
What you probably want is 0700 (R/W for the owner).

Cheers.
Ed

Using 0700 worked , Thank you! I thot ‘others’ would be what i needed
because i’m doing this from the web and so I’m not authenticating(
accept with a database and sessions). Now i cant delete the dirs from
the command line(ssh). Or from ftp (wftp[interestingly, it shows All
privs when i view chmod] and win explorer(xp)[which shows all privs for
‘owner’ - what i’d expect]. What group did i write it with? Do i have to
delete the dirs from the web as well?? Now, it appears, ‘the web’ is the
owner - i cant change anything with the dir. Anyone do something
similar(allowing users to upload files and create dirs) I guess what i
need is ‘all’ users and will just cross my finders…i’m making sure the
files are only images.

thanks, :clueless