corbeeresearch Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 I'm don't really much understand the 1st and 2nd digit of the chmod I know that 3rd means everyone. Owner means that only cpanel can control it right? how about group? do you need some php function to let chmod know it is a group? Thanks Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/218156-chmod-when-or-how-does-the-group-digit-work/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
trq Posted November 9, 2010 Share Posted November 9, 2010 Owner means that only cpanel can control it right? how about group? do you need some php function to let chmod know it is a group? On a Linux system there are users and groups. Users can belong to certain groups and usually default to belonging to a group with the same name as there user name. This allows you to make files and chmod them in such a way (664) so that only the owner (me), someone belonging to a certain group (by default - me) can read and write to that file, while everyone else can only read that file. Where cPanel comes into it I have no idea. It is simply a web application used to aid in server administration. Web servers however run as a specific user and group. Apache for instance might run as the apache, and the apache user might by default belong to the apache group. Now, because php executes as an apache module (part of apache), if you create a file using php it will belong to the apache user and the apache group. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/218156-chmod-when-or-how-does-the-group-digit-work/#findComment-1132093 Share on other sites More sharing options...
corbeeresearch Posted November 9, 2010 Author Share Posted November 9, 2010 Wow, that's mind boggling. Thanks Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/218156-chmod-when-or-how-does-the-group-digit-work/#findComment-1132164 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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