[wp-testers] Problems with autoupdate and plugin installer

[Jacob Santos]

The way I worked around this was to chown all of the files to the user 
of the webserver and modify the permissions. That way I don't require to 
enter in the FTP credentials.

I may mention that I have access to shell and root, which you might 
require in order to use my solution.

Jacob Santos

bosmail at gmail.com wrote:
> Not sure if my reply-mail got through - So heres a copy
> ---
> 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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