Visual Basic 6.0
Visual Basic 6.0
Set a Remote File's Owner and Group
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Demonstrates the Chilkat SFtp.SetOwnerAndGroup method, which sets the owner and group of a remote item. The arguments are the remote path (or handle), whether the first argument is a handle, and the new owner and group values.
Background: This is the SFTP equivalent of
chown. Changing ownership is a privileged operation on Unix systems — ordinary users generally cannot give their files away — so expect it to fail unless the authenticated account has the necessary rights. It is most often used by administrative jobs that upload files which must then belong to a service account, such as a web server user.Chilkat Visual Basic 6.0 Downloads
Dim success As Long
success = 0
' Demonstrates the SFtp.SetOwnerAndGroup method, which sets the owner and group of a remote item.
' The 1st argument is the remote path (or handle), the 2nd (isHandle) indicates which, and the
' 3rd and 4th are the new owner and group.
Dim sftp As New ChilkatSFtp
' Connect, authenticate, and initialize the SFTP subsystem.
Dim port As Long
port = 22
success = sftp.Connect("sftp.example.com",port)
If (success = 0) Then
Debug.Print sftp.LastErrorText
Exit Sub
End If
' 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.
Dim password As String
password = "mySshPassword"
success = sftp.AuthenticatePw("mySshLogin",password)
If (success = 0) Then
Debug.Print sftp.LastErrorText
Exit Sub
End If
success = sftp.InitializeSftp()
If (success = 0) Then
Debug.Print sftp.LastErrorText
Exit Sub
End If
' The 1st argument is a path, so isHandle is 0. Changing ownership typically requires
' elevated privileges on the server.
Dim isHandle As Long
isHandle = 0
success = sftp.SetOwnerAndGroup("subdir/report.pdf",isHandle,"www-data","www-data")
If (success = 0) Then
Debug.Print sftp.LastErrorText
Exit Sub
End If
Debug.Print "Owner and group set."
sftp.Disconnect