ownership

[Matt McCutchen]

On 7/30/07, boricua <boricua at despiertapr.com> wrote:
> not sure if i misunderstood the documentation but my understanding is
> the -a option preserves ownership and permissions on transfer.
>
> i did a remote test and i see ownership changed
> is that becuase user does not exist in the remote box
>
> 4.0K drwxr-xr-x  14 zoe         zoe   4.0K 2007-07-15 08:08 zoe
>
> but in the remote system they changed to
>
> 4.0K drwxr-x---  8 boricua users 4.0K 2007-05-02 11:07 zoe/
>
> in source box i was root and loged in as boricua to remote box.

Since the receiving (remote) rsync is running as a non-root user, it
lacks the power to set file owners to anything other than that user.
If you want it to do so, run it as root.

Matt