Re: A future for the SSH File Transfer Protocol?

[Darren Moffat <Darren.Moffat%eng.sun.com@localhost>]

>On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 09:34:31AM -0800, Darren J Moffat wrote:
>> 
>> To that end there has been proposals to change this area of
>> the protocol and augment it with a method for the client to translate
>> the opaque uid into a name suitable for display.  The rational being
>> that the mapping maybe different on the client than on the server.
> 
>It strikes me that the whole notion of internal uid is the wrong way
>to go and just makes life complex for both client and server.  I'd
>propose instead that all conversation be in terms of external
>user/group names.  If people really want to optimize directory listings,

I agree and this is why I said SFTP was starting to look like NFS + NIS,
if this is a file transfer protocol it shouldn't need this information
particularly if it is expected not to make any sense in the clients domain
anyway.

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Darren J Moffat