topic Re: ftp change ownership in Alfresco Archive

ftp change ownership

hr61369256 — Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:33:54 GMT

Hello, I'm looking for a solution to change the onwer after a bulk upload using the ftp of alfresco (currently using release 4.2.c on ubuntu 12.04 LTS). When I compare the alfresco ftp with, for example, vsftp I'm missing the command "chown" (and by the way "ls -l"). Is there an other possibility fo

Re: ftp change ownership

mrogers — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 11:00:00 GMT

No, I don't think so. Do you know which RFC specifies chown for ftp? I can't find it.

In particular chown or chmod is not on the common ftp RFCs I've checked.

Could you use a rule?

Re: ftp change ownership

hr61369256 — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:27:34 GMT

… I assumed that. But would'nt it be a wonderful enhancement?

Content rule: I'm not yet shure if that would work. What I need is changing onwership after uploading with ftp to the current logged-in user. I'm not using a ftp client, I'm using a php soap gui which triggers the bulk upload process. The stuff uploaded belongs afterwards to the alfresco-ftp-user "bulkupload" which should be changed to the user who started the upload process. (Hope this gives a kind of picture about the use case)

How can content rules come in here? Ideas?

Re: ftp change ownership

mrogers — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 13:54:38 GMT

If you use alfresco's ftp server then the content will be created with the user's session.

So your issue is to do with bulk upload and the ftp server is not alfresco. Could you store each user's content in a particular folder or tag it somehow?

Re: ftp change ownership

hr61369256 — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 14:32:38 GMT

Thank you for your hint. In the meantime I chose a third way with the php api and a code signed java applet. Java applet selects the files on the local client. Afterwards it forwards them to a php script on server side, which loads them into alfresco using given userid and ticket.