sftp-server and chown

[Mats Andersson]

Hi,

On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> It's broken and horrible.  And I don't feel we should remove a feature
> because a company can't figure out how to write a correct sftp client.

I don't know anything about their client, but after all they designed the
protocol which is quite clean IMHO.

> I would love to see sftp expanded.  I'd love to see a remote 'MOVE'
> command implemented.  I'm tired of all theses 'file transfer'
> programs/protocols that ignore the fact that people don't care about
> 'moving' files any more,

There is RENAME in the sftp protocol, it can be used to "move" files on
the target system. Not sure if this is what you meant, just thought I'd
mention it.

Cheers,

/Mats