rsync --owner=myaccount

[Ezequiel Panepucci]

Hello Community ,

We will be using rsync to keep data flowing from a data-collection
computer (data belongs to user "det") to a data-processing
computer where the data is to be owned by whichever
account is doing the experiment.

I would like to run rsync and be able to specify the target
UID/GID to use on the command line.

For security reasons, the user doing data processing
does not have direct access to the computer doing
the data-collection so rsync must run as root which
then is able to read the data transfer it and change its
owner ship.

I found the message below (from 10/2001) addressing
this issue and it looked like the patch had not found
resistance. Unfortunately I cannot get this to work
(of course the man page doesn't suggest it should...).

http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.unix.rsync/browse_thread/thread/50f6957086b822d/c113be869c374a63?lnk=gst&q=chown&rnum=2#c113be869c374a63

Can someone clarify if this is in the pipeline for rsync 3.0.0?

Right now I am using a python script which will be doing the
chown but I really think this feature would be very usefull
in general, not to say *much* faster when dealing with lots
of files.

Thanks in advance,
   Ezequiel

keywords: transfer superuser chown ownership chgrp