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Get a Remote File's Group

Demonstrates the Chilkat SFtp.GetFileGroup method, which returns a remote file's group ownership. The arguments are the remote path (or handle), whether symbolic links are followed, and whether the first argument is a handle.

Background: The group is the second half of Unix ownership, and it drives the "group" permission bits — the mechanism by which several accounts share access to the same files. As with the owner, the server may return a numeric GID when it cannot resolve a name, and the value is meaningful only on servers that implement Unix-style ownership.

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Local $bSuccess = False

;  Demonstrates the SFtp.GetFileGroup method, which returns a remote file's group ownership.  The
;  1st argument is the remote path (or handle), the 2nd selects whether symbolic links are
;  followed, and the 3rd indicates whether the 1st argument is a handle.

$oSftp = ObjCreate("Chilkat.SFtp")

;  Connect, authenticate, and initialize the SFTP subsystem.
Local $iPort = 22
$bSuccess = $oSftp.Connect("sftp.example.com",$iPort)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oSftp.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

;  Normally you would not hard-code the password in source.  You should instead obtain it
;  from an interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
Local $sPassword = "mySshPassword"

$bSuccess = $oSftp.AuthenticatePw("mySshLogin",$sPassword)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oSftp.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

$bSuccess = $oSftp.InitializeSftp()
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oSftp.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

;  The 2nd argument (bFollowLinks) selects whether a symbolic link is followed to its target.
;  The 3rd argument (bIsHandle) is False here because the 1st argument is a path, not an
;  open handle.
Local $bFollowLinks = True
Local $bIsHandle = False

Local $sGroup = $oSftp.GetFileGroup("subdir/report.pdf",$bFollowLinks,$bIsHandle)
If ($oSftp.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oSftp.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite("Group: " & $sGroup & @CRLF)

$oSftp.Disconnect