Running as root, yet permission denied

From: jn (usenet*spamistehsuckremovetoreply*_at_jasonnorris.net)
Date: 02/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 11:30:27 GMT

They have a server here that runs PHP as root (which is probably bad). I
wrote a test script that tries to create a text file.

 echo "<B>I'm running as user: " . $_ENV['USER'] . "</B><BR/><BR/>";

 //open the file
 echo "<B>Opening file text.txt for writing:</B>";
 $fp = fopen('text.txt',w);
 echo "<BR/>";

 if(!$fp){
  echo "<B>UNABLE TO CREATE THE FILE!</B>";
  exit;
 }

I get a permission denied error. The directory is CHMOD 755.

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