Remembering permissions
March 27, 2009 11:06 AM Subscribe
Is there any FTP client or trickery to remember the UNIX permissions when transferring files from a UNIX machine to a Windows machine?
There would need to be a way to chmod the file on the way back as well.
Bonus points if I can recall the owner and group settings. I don't have any type of shell, just FTP access.
There would need to be a way to chmod the file on the way back as well.
Bonus points if I can recall the owner and group settings. I don't have any type of shell, just FTP access.
Permissions are stored by the filesystem, they aren't part of the file itself. So when a file is copied from Windows to Unix, it assumes default permissions because it came from a filesystem that didn't store its permissions. That the file once had permissions in a previous incarnation on a Unix system is beside the point. The permissions aren't "in" the file, they're in the filesystem.
As long as you're FTP'ing files on Windows, you might as well check out WinSCP. It's pretty much the definitive open source FTP/SCP client for Windows.
posted by Loudmax at 10:13 PM on March 28, 2009
As long as you're FTP'ing files on Windows, you might as well check out WinSCP. It's pretty much the definitive open source FTP/SCP client for Windows.
posted by Loudmax at 10:13 PM on March 28, 2009
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posted by GuyZero at 11:18 AM on March 27, 2009