I'm looking for a way to run my perl script as a user other than nobody. With nobody, creating files and then later attempting to modify them brings complications. I've tried umask 002, which set the new file's permissions to -rw-rw-rw, but I still can not modify them (Permission Denied).

I've just read about a new approach that involves chmod 4755 to set the s-bit. As far as I know, this should allow my script to execute under my ownership instead of nobody. I've tried this several different ways, but I don't think it works. I read somewhere that it doesn't work with scripting languages like perl.

Does anyone have an experience with this. I need to have my script create files that are editable by both my username and the username nobody. There has to be a way...thanks in advance.

In reply to running cgi as user other than nobody by emilford

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