Re: WhoAmI in PHP and getting Wordpress plugins to work without FTP

Hi Tim,

Thanks for the pointer. I ran the following command to change the owner:

CHGOWN OBJ('/www/zendsvr/htdocs/wp_aaron') NEWOWN(QTMHHTTP) RVKOLDAUT(*NO)
SUBTREE(*ALL)



... and then reviewed the owner of file.php to make sure it took:


Object . . . . . . : /www/zendsvr/htdocs/wp_aaron/wp-admin/includes/f >

Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : STMF

Owner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : QTMHHTTP
System object is on . . . . . . . . . : Local
Auxiliary storage pool . . . . . . . . : 1
Object overflowed . . . . . . . . . : No

Coded character set ID . . . . . . . . : 819
Hidden file . . . . . . . . . . . . . : No
PC system file . . . . . . . . . . . . : No
Read only . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : No

Need to archive (PC) . . . . . . . . . : Yes
Need to archive (System) . . . . . . . : Yes


But that still didn't address the issue. Note I restarted ZendServer and
re-logged into WordPress just to make sure. I also tried to change the
owner to QTMHHTP1 and NOBODY without success.

Aaron Bartell
www.MowYourLawn.com/blog
www.OpenRPGUI.com
www.SoftwareSavesLives.com



On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:57 PM, Timothy P Clark <timclark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Aaron,

I haven't done much work with WordPress, but referring to the code snippet
in the blog entry that you referenced in your original post and the
description of getmyuid() at
http://php.net/manual/en/function.getmyuid.php, it seems to me that the
problem is that the owner of the WordPress scripts is different than the
profile running the web server.

if( function_exists(‘getmyuid’) && function_exists(‘fileowner’) ){
$temp_file = wp_tempnam();
if ( getmyuid() == fileowner($temp_file) )
$method = ‘direct’;
unlink($temp_file);
}

As you can see, the important thing is that the owner of the newly created
file (whose owner I expect to be QTMHHTTP) is the same as the owner of
the script file that is being executed (wp-admin/includes/file.php
apparently).

I would check who owns wp-admin/includes/file.php and if it is other than
QTMHHTTP, do a chown QTMHHTTP on (at least) wp-admin/includes/file.php.

Tim