can I use chown to change a files ownership from root to the user/group like this:
chown("user:psacln","/file/path/to/loc");

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I cannot get that to work... I searched for chown and found one, but that shows numbers only, I don't know how to get the username from any number.... in shell I do this:
chown user:psacln /file/to/loc
and that works.

I login to shell via root, so that I can move around on the whole server, so the owner of the files is root, so I need to change them to the username I am logged into, which I put at the top of the config file in var name: $_website_username

I don't know if the script on the page running can change roots files, but hope it can, I will appreciate any feedback you have for this.

thx,
Richard

In reply to using chown to change file ownership by powerhouse

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