Re: sftp + ls not working properly

From: Tony Gale (gale@dstl.gov.uk)
Date: 03/27/02 

From: gale@dstl.gov.uk (Tony Gale)
Date: 27 Mar 2002 14:36:44 GMT

In article <a18ea926.0203270608.75479ae6@posting.google.com>,
        piotr_wolak@yahoo.com (Piotr Wolak) writes:
>
> Do you know why the ls command does not convert UID and GID into real
> user name and group name ? Which is the default ls binary use by sftp
> ?
>

The sftp protocol sends the uid/gid file attributes as numerical values.
There is no provision within the protocol for sending the values as
names.

-tony

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