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Get a Remote File's Owner

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

Background: Ownership determines who may read, write, or change a file under Unix permission rules, so reading the owner is useful for auditing or for deciding whether an operation will be allowed. Note that a server may report the owner as a numeric UID rather than a name if it cannot resolve the account, and that ownership is a Unix concept — servers on other platforms may return an empty or synthetic value.

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#include <CkSFtpW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    //  Demonstrates the SFtp.GetFileOwner method, which returns a remote file's owner.  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.

    CkSFtpW sftp;

    //  Connect, authenticate, and initialize the SFTP subsystem.
    int port = 22;
    success = sftp.Connect(L"sftp.example.com",port);
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",sftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    //  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.
    const wchar_t *password = L"mySshPassword";

    success = sftp.AuthenticatePw(L"mySshLogin",password);
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",sftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    success = sftp.InitializeSftp();
    if (success == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",sftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    //  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.
    bool bFollowLinks = true;
    bool bIsHandle = false;

    const wchar_t *owner = sftp.getFileOwner(L"subdir/report.pdf",bFollowLinks,bIsHandle);
    if (sftp.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",sftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    wprintf(L"Owner: %s\n",owner);

    sftp.Disconnect();
    }