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[Joakim Hove]

Hello,

 [Disclaimer: This might really be a Unix question ?!]

I have written a cgi-script in python - it works reasonably well. The
script is invoked by the apache web server and runs as user
'wwwrun'. 

During the execution of the script I want to save some files, as the
script is run bu user 'wwwrun' that is also the resulting ownership of
the files created. Since I don't have root access on the server these
files create some hassle.

Hence my question is whether it is possible (from the the python
script) to change identity 'wwwrun' -> 'myuser' during execution?



Best Regards

Joakim Hove

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