"The following files need to be writable"

[shodson]

When I try to upgrade from 4.2 to 4.5 via my web browser is lists a whole bunch of files that need to be writable. The only way I can think of doing this is to chmod every file in the list, or all files, to 777 or something so I can get this upgrade to work but that seems like a security nightmare. All of the files are owned by "root" and group "root". What do you recommend?

I'm running pn Ubuntu 6.06, Apache2, PHP 5.

[overhaul]

I'm having the same issue with an upgrade from 4.0.1 to 4.5.0d. Were you able to get past this error?

I think I got this to work. I used ssh to chmod 777 (all files) and ran the updated wizard from IE6 on my PC. When it is done I'll chmod back to 755 (all files) then 644 (*.php files).