Preserving uid/gid on remote machine with non-root permission

[David Hausheer]

Erik Jan Tromp wrote:
> Depending on the degree of complexity you're willing to play with, 2 projects come immediately to mind (there may be others, dunno):
> 
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/fakeroot/
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/pretendroot/

Thanks for the pointer. fakeroot seems to do what I was looking for. 
Actually, /usr/share/doc/fakeroot/README.saving gives a nice example how 
fakeroot can be used with rsync for backup purposes using the -s option.

David

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