<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 10:57 AM, Robert DuToit <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rdutoit@comcast.net">rdutoit@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Does the server (or other computer in this case) always need a root account established for this to work? I tried everything else and the owner always became that of the remote user.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The user running the receiving rsync needs to be able to "chown" things (change a file's ownership). Rsync only attempts to chown files if (1) the running user ID is 0 (typically "root") or (2) the --super option was used. See the manpage for what --super affects.</div>
<div> </div></div>..wayne..<br>