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Re: Question about File ownership file upload and HTTP Post

Filip Hanik

2007-07-27

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Josh Rountree wrote:
> I have a servlet that processes requests for file uploads. When I write this
> file to disk, root is the owner? Is this the correct behavior? Since I do
> not have root access on the machine that the servlet executes I cannot
> remove these files. Any documentation that explains how to change the owner
> of these uploaded files?
>  
that is because your tomcat (java) process runs as root
you could write code to change the owner of the file after saving it to disk
Filip
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> Thanks, Josh
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