File::Temp permisions?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm confused again.

I'm using File::Temp in a CGI program on apache/LINUX. The temp files get created just fine but I need to access them later in the program with another program called with system(). Problem is the permissions are 600 and the owner is 'nobody'.

Who is the user when running system?
Can I change/set the permisions using File::Temp?
What happens later when I port this to Windows?

I guess what I'm asking is what is the best way to deal with this to be portable? I soppose I could use chmod() but what will windows think?

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Re: File::Temp permisions? by misterb101 (Sexton) on Feb 10, 2006 at 11:14 UTC
Hi anonymous, the owner of new files created by an cgi process is the user that is running apache. usually this is www-data, apache or just nobody. I don't think File::Temp offers setting of file permissions but you can do this by either. - chmod 0755 ,$file; - changing apache config to set the file create mask to 755 or whatever you like In windows I don't know what would happen since I never work on windows systems anymore ;) Cheers, Rob	[reply]
Re: File::Temp permisions? by MCS (Monk) on Feb 10, 2006 at 14:52 UTC
I don't really do windows much anymore but file permissions are a bit lax on windows so I don't think it should be a problem. If I remember correctly, chmod() is ignored on windows.	[reply]