(Visual Basic 6.0) SFTP Get/Set File Permission

Demonstrates how to set the permissions of a file on the SFTP server

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' This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim sftp As New ChilkatSFtp

' Connect to the SSH/SFTP server.  
Dim hostname As String
hostname = "sftp.example.com"
Dim port As Long
port = 22
Dim success As Long
success = sftp.Connect(hostname,port)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print sftp.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Authenticate with the SSH server.  Chilkat SFTP supports
' both password-based authenication as well as public-key
' authentication.  This example uses password authenication.
success = sftp.AuthenticatePw("myLogin","myPassword")
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print sftp.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' After authenticating, the SFTP subsystem must be initialized:
success = sftp.InitializeSftp()
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print sftp.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Get the file permissions for the "hamlet.xml" file on the server.
' The hamlet.xml file is located in the qa_data directory found under the HOME directory of the SSH user account.
' We are passing the remote file path (we are not passing a file handle returned by a previous call to OpenFile).
Dim isHandle As Long
isHandle = 0
Dim followLinks As Long
followLinks = 1
Dim permVal As Long
permVal = sftp.GetFilePermissions("qa_data/hamlet.xml",followLinks,isHandle)
If (permVal < 0) Then
    Debug.Print sftp.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Note: Filesystem permissions on Linux/Unix/MacOSX are typically written in octal (POSIX file permissions).  For example 0644 is octal.
' To convert to decimal: octal 644 = 6*8^2 + 4*8 + 4 = 420 (decimal)
' 
' The server may return a permissions value (in octal) such as 100644.
' The "100" indicates the file type, such as regular file or directory. 

' Show the decimal value of the permissions
Debug.Print "decimal permissions value: " & permVal

' To set the file permissions, pass the integer value.
' Let's change the permissions to 0664, which is 6*8^2 + 6*8 + 4 = 436 (decimal)
success = sftp.SetPermissions("qa_data/hamlet.xml",isHandle,436)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print sftp.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print "Success."