openssh unix dev - Apr 2004 - filexfer draft and uid / gid resolution ...

Matthew Grooms wrote:
> Sorry if this is not the best place to post this question but I'm
> not sure who else to ask. After reading through the filexfer draft I am
> having trouble understanding how a sftp client goes about resolving uid
> / gid to its text representation. Without handling this translation for
> the user, how do they know the difference between one uid / gid to the
> next without opening up a terminal to the remote host and resolving them
> manually?
The version of the filexfer draft that OpenSSH supports doesn't support
user/group name resolution. We have access to numeric user and group IDs
only.

Later versions of the filexfer draft do support this, but I have some
misgiving about them that I would like to see resolved before
implementing support for a new revision.

-d

Sorry if this is not the best place to post this question but I'm
not sure who else to ask. After reading through the filexfer draft I am
having trouble understanding how a sftp client goes about resolving uid
/ gid to its text representation. Without handling this translation for
the user, how do they know the difference between one uid / gid to the
next without opening up a terminal to the remote host and resolving them
manually?

     Is it possible to resolve this info through some other ssh related
mechanism I overlooked? Is this by design to keep remote users from
resolving random uid's / gid's via sftp? ... I don't get it.

Please CC me on any replies. I am not a member of this list. Thanks in
advance.

-Matthew