Re: [Nautilus-list] FTP file permissions

[Ian McKellar <yakk-nautilus yakk net au>]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 05:07:12PM -0400, Abe Fettig wrote:
> I want to be able to upload cgi scripts to website through FTP and make
> them executable.  I would also like to be able to view the permissions
> of files already on the site.
> 
> I don't need to see or change ownership information, just
> owner/group/others permissions.  It seems like this should be possible,
> since FTP supports the chmod command, and most other graphical FTP
> clients allow you to do this.

Hmm - it should be possible to support much of this in the set_file_info
call. I would accept a patch to that effect - it should be pretty simple
to write. I think I abstracted away most of the ugliness from the FTP 
protocol within the FTP method.

Ian