Problem preserving user/group names on AIX, rsync 2.6.2

[Aaron Morris]

On 8/6/05, John Van Essen <vanes002 at umn.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Aug 2005, Aaron Morris <aaronwmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 8/5/05, Bob Hutchinson <hutchlists at midwales.com> wrote:
> >> On Friday 05 Aug 2005 07:09, Aaron Morris wrote:
> >> > I am having a bit of a problem with rsync 2.6.2 on AIX and I was
> >> > wondering if this might just be the expected behavior.
> >> >
> >> > When using the -o and -g flags, the user and group names are NOT
> >> > preserved on the receiving side, however, the UIDs/GIDs are preserved.
> >> >  I checked the OLDNEWS file and bugzilla, but could not find any
> >> > reference to a problem like this.
> >>
> >>  the user and group names will only show if they exist on the receiving side,
> >> otherwise only the uid/gids will show. I'd call that normal behaviour ;-)
> >
> > The users and groups do exist on both sides.  Any other ideas?
> 
> By default, the daemon uses chroot.  See the "use chroot" section
> in the rsyncd.conf man page for limitations resulting from that.
> It explains why only numeric ID's are used and why you are unable
> to map usernames and groups.  One solution is "use chroot = no".
> 
>     John
> 

Thanks, John.  That explains it.


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Aaron W Morris (decep) <aaronwmorris at gmail.com>