
September 18th, 1999, 10:23 AM
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There is nothing magic to the 'nobody' ID under a UNIX system. Files owned by that user are subject to the same protection as any other user's files and directories. That is, files cannot be deleted unless the directory permissions in which they reside allows them to do so.
It sounds as if you wish to run apache as a specific user, to avoid making directories world writable (which allows any user to delete files not owned by them). Fair enough. Apache does have the facility to do this; see your server's documentation for details.
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