Get a Remote File's POSIX Permissions

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Demonstrates the Chilkat SFtp.GetFilePermissions method, which returns a remote item's complete POSIX mode value. The arguments are the remote path (or handle), whether symbolic links are followed, and whether the first argument is a handle.

-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    --  Demonstrates the SFtp.GetFilePermissions method, which returns a remote item's complete POSIX
    --  mode value.  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.

    DECLARE @sftp int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.SFtp', @sftp OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    --  Connect, authenticate, and initialize the SFTP subsystem.
    DECLARE @port int
    SELECT @port = 22
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @sftp, 'Connect', @success OUT, 'sftp.example.com', @port
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @sftp, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sftp
        RETURN
      END

    --  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.
    DECLARE @password nvarchar(4000)
    SELECT @password = 'mySshPassword'

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @sftp, 'AuthenticatePw', @success OUT, 'mySshLogin', @password
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @sftp, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sftp
        RETURN
      END

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @sftp, 'InitializeSftp', @success OUT
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @sftp, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sftp
        RETURN
      END

    --  The 2nd argument (bFollowLinks) selects whether a symbolic link is followed to its target.
    --  The 3rd argument (bIsHandle) is 0 here because the 1st argument is a path, not an
    --  open handle.
    DECLARE @bFollowLinks int
    SELECT @bFollowLinks = 1
    DECLARE @bIsHandle int
    SELECT @bIsHandle = 0

    DECLARE @mode int
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @sftp, 'GetFilePermissions', @mode OUT, 'subdir/script.sh', @bFollowLinks, @bIsHandle
    IF @mode < 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @sftp, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sftp
        RETURN
      END

    --  The value is the complete POSIX mode, which combines the file-type bits with the
    --  owner/group/other permission bits (the low 9 bits).  For example, a mode of 33261 (octal
    --  0100755) is a regular file with 0755 permissions.

    PRINT 'POSIX mode (decimal): ' + @mode

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @sftp, 'Disconnect', NULL

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sftp


END
GO