Your description has not given me a clear picture yet of what it is you are facing, but the following possibilities come to mind--perhaps they will have some value, if nothing more than to expand your ideas.

You've said that Sally1 doesn't have permission to "write" or "create" files. Does "Johnny1" have these permissions? If so, it would seem that's an inequality that you need to look at right there. If Johnny1 can do something that Sally1 cannot, there must certainly be a difference between their permissions. Have you checked the privileges of these users on the linux platform itself (not mediated by apache)? For example, look into /etc/sudoers and see if any of the inclusions would apply to Johnny1 and not to Sally1.

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

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Is Johnny1 a member of root, admin, or sudo?

Look at /etc/group and scan the list to see any place where Johnny1 occurs (www-data?), without also having Sally1.

And if you do not have root privileges yourself and these files are inaccessible, you may need to look elsewhere for a solution, and/or contact your server admin for support.

Apache can be very troublesome with minor details, in my experience.

Blessings,

~Polyglot~

In reply to Re: I need a user just for Perl script run from web browsers by Polyglot
in thread I need a user just for Perl script run from web browsers by bartender1382

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