A user seems to be usurping www-data....

Hello,

I'm running Lucid Ubuntu with Apache2.

Mostly my site works well.

But: when PHP scripts execute mkdir() or moveuploadedfile commands, the newly created folders/files are owned by another unix user, not www-data. www-data owns the containing folder.

I did create this other user, but it shouldn't be owning these files.

When I log in with my public key, a different user – not the troublesome one -- is used.

The troublesome user also owns my PHP sessions when they get created, although nothing else.

When I delete the user (the bad one) I can't restart Apache -- I get "bad username." My PHP sessions also break.

So I add the user again and I'm back where I started.

Any ideas?

Thanks so much,

Elliot