Re: [webmin-l] Usermin file manager uploads files as root user

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 20/Feb/2007 16:46 Chris Graves wrote ..
> This may have already been covered before, but I couldn't find it when
> searching the archives, so my apologies if it has. I am having an issue
> with the Java based file manager for Usermin. When a user uploads a file
> it is uploaded as owned by root instead of the logged in user. The group
> is correct. I'm not sure if this is an issue with serving off of Mac OS
> X (I'm using 10.3.9) but using the standard upload-download module the
> files are uploaded as the correct logged in user/group. This occurs with
> Firefox & Safari on Mac and IE & Firefox on Windows. I'd appreciate any
> thoughts or ideas. Many Thanks.

That certainly is not supposed to happen .. and when testing again with the
latest Usermin to make sure, it does set the correct ownership for me.

However, I seem to recall an issue with Perl on the Mac in the past where
the system call to change the current user silently fails, which causes
this effect! Sadly, there is no solution, unless Apple or someone has made
a fixed Perl available.

 - Jamie