[wp-testers] Problems with autoupdate and plugin installer

[bosmail at gmail.com]

Not sure if my reply-mail got through - So heres a copy
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Yes, I can see that the new owner of the installed plugins through the
plugins installer is "Webserver" instead of "You". But since I can't get it
to work with getmyuid, I'll just have to see if posix_getuid will cause any
future problems.

Any suggestions appreciated though


/Brian


2008/11/30 Peter Westwood <peter.westwood at ftwr.co.uk>

> bosmail at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> I'm using servage.net hosting and I'm having problems with auto updater.
>> I've found a workaround her:
>> http://vanonet.com/2008/09/servage-wordpress-plugin-autoupgrade-problem/
>>
>> By changing the below string in wp-admin/include/file.php
>>
>>
>>    if ( getmyuid() == fileowner($temp_file) )
>>
>> to
>>
>>    if ( posix_getuid() == fileowner($temp_file) )
>>
>> I'm not aware of the exact consequences, if any, but it solved the problem
>> in both 2.6.5 and 2.7-almost-rc-9965
>>
>> If the above string could be changed permanently it would be of great help
>> to users with the same problem.
>>
>>
> Not sure thats wise.
>
> getmyuid — Gets PHP script owner's UID
> posix_getuid — Return the real user ID of the current process
>
> The purpose of the code you have changed is to determine whether or not the
> updater can use direct file access to update the files whilst still keeping
> the permissions suitable for you to be able to access the files by ftp etc.
>
> This is why we use getmyuid as that gets the owner of the files - i.e. you
>
> Using posix_getuid probably gets the webserver user which means you don't
> own the files any more!
>
> You should still be able to do the upgrades/installs using one of the ftp
> filesystem abstractions.
>
> westi
>
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