Re: uid and gid values in the sftp protocol

From: Simon Tatham (anakin_at_pobox.com)
Date: 08/27/04

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    Steve Turner <bbqboyee@H2OlooWoodworks.com> wrote:
    > The SFTP protocol can send the integer uid and gid values for a file
    > back to a requesting client in an SSH_FXP_ATTRS packet, but I can see no
    > way for the client to map those integers to the human-readable string
    > that makes sense for the file as it exists on the server. The uid/gid
    > values for user "foo" need not be the same on both the client and the
    > server, so I can't see how a generic SFTP client can properly display
    > those values as meaningful strings. Any plans to offer a protocol
    > extension that will allow the mapping of uid/gid values to the correct
    > names?

    I proposed one on the ietf-ssh mailing list in 2001:

      http://www.tartarus.org/~simon/ssh/draft-sftp-userdb-00.txt

    Nobody seemed terribly interested at the time, although there was
    some follow-up discussion on this list in November 2001 (check the
    archives at ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf-mail-archive/secsh/ ). 

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<anakin@pobox.com>    there were no hypothetical situations..."
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