Hey,

im trying to make a simple user/file system so user can uplaod files to a folder.

but it seems that the files uplaoded are set to Nobody as the owner, so when i try to delete/modify via FTP or cPanel i get permission denied, and i then have to use PHP unlink() to delete them

So how do i assign the owner as imedia (my cpanel username for the account)

Dan

I don't know about cpanel, but this is the procedure when using a raw apache install on a managed server:

Nobody is the Unix shell account under which the apache process is running.
You have several options:
1) modify the apache configuration to force it to run under another account. Not recommended, because it gives more rights on the computer to the service, which ease the task to hacker if they can use a buffer overflow bug

2) change the umask used by "nobody" on the server start, and makes the files created by the apache process "group readable/writable".
The umask utility is for that. I believe "umask 002" is what you would need.
Then create a new unix group, and set your FTP user and the apache user members of that group.

Now, as the umask specify that both of you are in the same group, and the files have group permissions that gives every members of the group full access permissions, you will be able to delete them

And if you are on a shared hosting account, then you must use your "remote file manager" or something like that to either change the ownership or the files permissions.