Unix file ownership for wide open directories
Matt McCutchen
matt at mattmccutchen.net
Fri Oct 30 10:30:37 MDT 2009
On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 12:16 -0400, JESSE CARROLL wrote:
> Forgive me if the answer is obvious but I've googled and searched the
> archives but I can't seem to find a good solution.
>
> Scenario on a Solaris system:
>
> ls -ld /foo
> drwxrwxrwx 2 user1 other 512 Oct 30 16:05 /foo
>
> ls -l /foo/*
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 user1 other 10 Oct 30 16:05 /foo/file_a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 user2 staff 30 Oct 30 16:05 /foo/file_b
>
> (Yes I know wide open directories are evil, but the application folks
> do strange things.)
>
> If I use rsync as user1 all the files on the destination server are
> owned by user1. I.E.
>
> ls -l /foo/*
> total 0
> -rw-r--r-- 1 user1 other 10 Oct 30 16:05 /foo/file_a
> -rw-r--r-- 1 user1 other 30 Oct 30 16:05 /foo/file_b
> Any suggestions on preserving the file ownership in this case?
The -o (--owner) option?
--
Matt
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