UBB.threads PHP Forum Software Community Forums UBB.threads 6 Version 6 Support 6.4.2 Won't Change Avatars

My problem is the same as this thread.

Users cannot change their uploaded avatars. What happens is, the user selects the avatar they wish to upload, hits submit, but the old avatar remains. Uploading fresh copies of the scripts does not change the behavior.

What I've noticed in the shell is the following attributes of my uploaded avatar:

-rw-r--r-- 1 nobody nobody 7152 Jun 3 20:59 2.jpg

I can manually delete it from the shell, and am first prompted whether I want to "remove write-protected regular file `2.jpg'?" When checking the avatars file folder permissions from the admin control panel, it exists and is writable according to the script.

I think there is a fundamental permission problem when UBBT first uploads the avatar, and then it is later unable to overwrite it. In this instance, it looks like the script is running as 'nobody' instead of my user account.

The avatar feature worked fine in 6.0.2, but no longer in 6.4.2. Have the file handling calls been changed perhaps?

Any ideas?

Additionally info that may help:

I am unable to chmod or chown the file. I can only delete it.

Actually in 6.0 series you couldn't upload pictures - only link to them. That's a fairly new feature (6.2 or 6.3 I think).

I believe that has to do with the security settings on the server - I believe in "safe mode" all the PHP scripts run as "nobody" which creates a problem when it needs to change/remove files... it can't change files owned by nobody.

Under my 6.0.2 users were able to upload avatars, and I have a whole directory full of them as a result.

As for safe mode, it's disabled in the php implementation on my server.

Upon closer scrutiny, and comparison with a reinstall of 6.0.2 it turns out the script is indeed overwriting the old avatar with the new avatar. It seems to be a browser caching issue instead. When editbasic/changebasic sends you back to the MyHome screen, the old picture still posts. But upon a forced refresh of the browser, the new picture takes its place.

Thanks for your time.