in reply to Directory creation failing

the typical username of the httpd daemon is nobody... and nobody has basically no rights!

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Re: Re: Directory creation failing
by Fletch (Bishop) on Feb 27, 2004 at 14:29 UTC

    nobody has the same rights as any other user id (able to open or write files to which it has access, etc.). The difference is that on a well configured server what it can access is very limited.</pedant>