[Bug 9252] Re: Nautilus reports file ownership incorrectly on sftp:// files

[Spliffster]

sftp (OpenSSH actually) offers the possibility to chown/chgrp/chmod
remote files:

sftp> help chgrp
Available commands:
...
chgrp grp path                Change group of file 'path' to 'grp'
chmod mode path               Change permissions of file 'path' to 'mode'
chown own path                Change owner of file 'path' to 'own'
...

on a second thought this is (however) tricky. on an NFS share it works
fine in gnome, because local and remote uid's and gid's must be in sync
for NFS to work properly. for scp/sftp this requirement is often not met
(imagine sftp-ing to your web hosting provider).

I could see a solution for this problem only, if there would be a way to
white/blacklist hosts/networks for gnome. the user of the client would
have to tell gnome which hosts/networks are in sync (uid wise). or gnome
could try to probe if information of a remote host are available via
yp/nis or ldap.

the current behavour is "save" for unknown networks, but it's quiet a
PITA if nis/ldap is in use.

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Nautilus reports file ownership incorrectly on sftp:// files
https://launchpad.net/bugs/9252