Ownership changing from sftp session

[bachi]

Hi,

I am using sftp to transfer files in hp-ux server(11.23). I am able to change file permisson with out any issues. but when I am trying to change ownership with "chown" I am getting the below error.

Error:
sftp> chown kandurir:users PIDB_Scripts.txt
You must supply a numeric argument to the chown command.
sftp>

can you please help me some one to resolve this issue. i want change onwership from sftp session only for remote files.

Thanks,
Balaji.

[Ganesan R]

Hi,

I think you may need to give userid:groupid instead of names.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

Suggest scp -p for file transfer to preserve permissions. Or using an actual shell script on the target to handle perms.

Password free access might help.

http://www.hpux.ws/?p=10

SEP

[Ganesan R]

Hi,

You need to change ownership with chown command and group ownership with chgrp command

#chown userid
#chgrp grpid

Also you should have the permission to change ownerships..

Hope this helps.

[Steven Schweda]

In case it's not obvious, UNIX (like every
other OS?) stores file ownership and group
as numbers. It also has ways of relating
these numbers to names (/etc/passwd,
/etc/group, NIS, ...).

There's no good reason to expect the
name-to-number mapping on a remote system to
agree with that on the local system, so,
apparently, "sftp> chown" is trying to save
you from making what could be a big mistake.