change UID+GID on target system?

[Voelker, Bernhard]

Uwe Brauer wrote (June 19, 2012 2:46 PM):

> >> On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:18:23 +0000, "Voelker, Bernhard"
> >> <bernhard.voelker at siemens-enterprise.com> wrote: 
>
>    > Uwe Brauer wrote (June 18, 2012 6:21 PM)
>    >> 
>    >> rsync -avx /path/to/src oub at localhost:/path/to/usb/dest
>    >> 
>    >> Because otherwise the system does not recognise the passwd
>    >> of u1002
>
>    > I don't understand. You said your user "oub" has id
>    > 1000 on the source laptop, and id 1002 on the
>    > destination laptop.  The idea therefore was to have a
>    > second user with id 1002 on the source laptop - I named
>    > it u1002, and use rsync via ssh to the localhost to get
>    > the files on the USB drive/stick with id 1002.
>
>
> Oh I see misunderstanding then. So what you propose is
> basically a chown of the directory in question?

no.

> I tried the following 
>
> Laptop1 to disk: disk is mounted with uid=1000
>  rysnc -auvzx /home/oub/dir /media/disk/oub (id=1000)

that will copy all files with id=1000 - that's not what
I suggested. I wrote the way to copy the files with id=1002
onto the USB disk by ssh-ing into localhost with a user which
has id 1002.

BTW: Why do you need it on the USB drive? I.e. why don't you
directly rsync from Laptop1 to Laptop2?

Bye,
Berny