I'm running a cron which is run under another user (not **apache**) and when I try to access **apache**'s files it shows an error like:

```
fopen(): SAFE MODE Restriction in effect. 
The script whose uid is 10017 is not allowed to access ....

```

It's because safe\_mode is turned on and it doesn't let me use **apache**'s files (in this case uploaded files through the site). How can I overcome this? In php.net it says I have to be superuser to be able to change ownership which doesn't seem very secure to me ...