Our hosting provider does not allow ssh
-access (because security), but lets us upload files and manipulate directories via sftp
. (The only other choice is through "cpanel").
sftp
is good enough to allow creating the symbolic links, but not good enough to properly list them. For example:
sftp> symlink 500 rwu
sftp> ls -l
lrwxrwxrwx 1 foo bar 3 May 22 16:27 rwu
That is, I can see the fact that "rwu
" is a symlink, but I can not see to what. At least, not by default. Is there some "hidden" option to the entire sftp
-client or its ls
-command, that would list symlinks properly — the way the real ls(1)
would?
Best Answer
The OpenSSH SFTP client does not currently support this.
This is the only occurrence of
SSH_FXP_READLINK
in the OpenSSH source code. I don't know why this is commented out or what it would take to make it work. The only relevant message I can find on the OpenSSH mailing list is a patch from 2002 that wasn't adopted.So your only option is to use a different SFTP client, such as SSHFS or curl.