CHMOD column for ftp folders?

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Hi all,

Is it possible to have a CHMOD column for ftp folders instead of the attributes column ?
I did not find a CHMOD column, am i missing something ?

Thanks for your help.

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There is no CHMOD column, but you can at least use the properties dialog to view your CHMOD settings for every item. Possibly some scripting stuff could provide that column.

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What would it show that the Attributes column doesn't?

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yes, i know, but a "global" view would be nice.

that's a good idea, could it be done with ScriptColumn stuff ?

nothing, except that as a web developer CHMOD makes much more sense to me than the attribute column, it would be much easier to "read"

Besides there are already many "cosmetic" column :smiley:

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So it's just the column header you'd like to change? Not what the column actually displays? CHMOD is a command, it's not really descriptive of the information (which are generally called "access permissions" in *nix), so I'm not sure it really makes sense for the column to be called that.

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Sorry, if i was not clear...

i'm talking about what the column actually displays...

i found it MUCH easier to read that way :
some folder - 755
some files – 644

than this way :
some folder - d[nowrap]r[/nowrap]wxr-xr-x
some files – -rw-r--r--

:smiley:

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So... it is easier to split numbers into digits, then decode each digit into binary, then map the binary flags to... exactly what we show in the first place? :slight_smile:

That seems harder to me, although I know a lot of Unix sysadmins do it so often that it becomes second nature to them. Maybe familiar is a better word than easier. If it's more familiar to people then it can still be worth adding, certainly.

One place it really is easier is if you know the "correct" numeric value you want everything to be and can quickly scan for any deviations. That's the one place where the numeric attributes make some sense to me. Aside from that they always seemed like an artifact of how the chmod command line worked, probably so the original programmer could avoid complex argument parsing by making the users do the math in their heads. :slight_smile:

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As I said I'm a web designer not a Unix sysadmins, and for us web designers, we talk about file or folder permissions using Numbers :smiley:

I dare you find a tutorial about hardening a website that does not use number when talking about file or folder permissions... :wink:

PS: I'm trying to do a column script to get my chmod column but scriptColData.item.attr_text.valueOf(); does not work for ftp folders... any idea ?