Python CGI & File Permissions

[Jason Orendorff]

> I had a similar problem when trying to create a directory with
> os.mkdir(path, mode).  Even though I passed 0777 as mode, it only
> created it as -rwxrw-rw-.  The documentation says that should work,
> but it didn't for me (Python 1.5.2 and 2.1)

This is probably your umask at work.  This is a Unix feature,
not a Python bug.  "umask" prevents you from creating files with
certain dangerous permissions.  You can set it in Python:
os.umask().

Anyway, creating directories with 777 permissions is bad!
Instead, run your CGI script as the appropriate user.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/suexec.html

bwaskiew at indiana.edu (Brian Waskiewicz) wrote:
> > I'm trying to use a Python CGI script to write a text file on a
> > Unix/Apache webserver. The problem is that the file created is owned
> > by 'nobody' and has permissions '-rw-r--r--'.  I need to read and
> > append to the file in other scripts, so I need some way of changing
> > the file permissions.  I tried os.chmod() and that didn't work.

See above.

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