Am Mittwoch, den 12.07.2006, 23:54 +0200 schrieb Christian Kellner: > Hey there, > > > We're currently using the UID/GID provided from the SFTP server, but > > this is deprecated in recent sftp drafts [1]. > Is anybody actually following recent versions of the draft? Isn't > OpenSSH still using version 3 or so? I remember having seen nice > additions of functions but nobody implemented them.
This is true, but we should encourage server authors to implement recent drafts by implementing them on the client side :). Without these modifications, SFTP isn't really interoperable. > I also totally think that in most of the cases the UID/GID information > might be totally useless but there are certain setups (in cooperate > environments) where they actually make sense (central user database). So > this is another trade off I guess. Recent drafts suggest that ownership should be flagged using user/group strings, which can be used across operating systems. > Well, since the recent draft deprecates it, it's probably a good idea to > get rid of it anyway. We only loose the ability to change the GID in > nautilus, right? So if somebody has objections please cry otherwise I am > fine with the patch. We also loose the ability of displaying the UID/GID. Maybe we should keep the functionality in GnomeVFS for now, but make Nautilus and other client applications ignore the UID/GID for determining whether chmod is possible for remote file systems, until we have a string-based ownership mechanism. -- Christian Neumair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ gnome-vfs-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-vfs-list
