403 Forbidden with chown script

[wobblyboy]

Hey,

I'm using the modified chownpublichtmls script below to update files in every account in /home. When I run the script, every account gets locked out and receives a 403 Forbidden error.

Is there any way to avoid the 403 error when I update the files? Is it really neccessary to lock people out when chowning or copying files?

BTW, I don't know if it matters but I'm running PHP as cgi with phpsuexec.

Thanks!

#!/usr/bin/perl

BEGIN {
    push(@INC,"/scripts");
}

require '/scripts/safetybits.pl';

while(@PW=getpwent()) {
        if (-d "$PW[7]/public_html" && -e "/var/cpanel/users/$PW[0]")  {
		print "Copying and Chowning $PW[0]....";
		
		$account = $PW[0];
		
		if ($account ne "imsdirec"){
		system("cp -rf /root/cpanel3-skel/public_html/admin /home/$PW[0]/public_html");
		system("cp -rf /root/cpanel3-skel/public_html/cncat /home/$PW[0]/public_html");
		system("cp -rf /root/cpanel3-skel/public_html/shared_files /home/$PW[0]/public_html");
		#system("cp -rf /root/cpanel3-skel/public_html/.htaccess /home/$PW[0]/public_html");
		system("cp -rf /root/cpanel3-skel/public_html/download.php /home/$PW[0]/public_html");
		system("cp -rf /root/cpanel3-skel/public_html/index.php /home/$PW[0]/public_html");
		print "Copy done...";
		}
		
                safe_recchown($PW[2],$PW[3],"$PW[7]/public_html");
		print "chown Done\n";
        }

}


exec '/scripts/enablefileprotect';

 

[dropby23]

re chown the public html directory's like user:nobody

chown user:nobody /home/user/public_html

chown -R user:user /home/user/public_html/