The RFC 3659 defines the MLSD and MLST commands, the various facts that can be used in those responses. One of the things that the RFC left out (perhaps by accident) in the mentioned facts were facts for conveying the user and group names. By convention, many FTP implementations starting using UNIX.owner and UNIX.group fact names to provide the numeric IDs. But the name strings corresponding to those numeric IDs, such as would be provided in the LIST responses, were lacking.
Fact names for these user/group strings have now been registered in the IANA OS-Specific Facts Registry: UNIX.ownername and UNIX.groupname. The mod_facts module should implement support for these facts, and start using them by default.
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The RFC 3659 defines the
MLSDandMLSTcommands, the various facts that can be used in those responses. One of the things that the RFC left out (perhaps by accident) in the mentioned facts were facts for conveying the user and group names. By convention, many FTP implementations starting usingUNIX.ownerandUNIX.groupfact names to provide the numeric IDs. But the name strings corresponding to those numeric IDs, such as would be provided in theLISTresponses, were lacking.Fact names for these user/group strings have now been registered in the IANA OS-Specific Facts Registry:
UNIX.ownernameandUNIX.groupname. Themod_factsmodule should implement support for these facts, and start using them by default.This was occasioned by this ServerFault post.