[Bug 8844] New: rsyncd ownership handling

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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8844

           Summary: rsyncd ownership handling
           Product: rsync
           Version: 3.1.0
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P5
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org
        ReportedBy: andras.porjesz at ericsson.com
         QAContact: rsync-qa at samba.org


I have an rsync client running with the following flags:
    RSYNC_FLAGS="--recursive"                      # this tells rsync to copy
directories recursively
    RSYNC_FLAGS="$RSYNC_FLAGS --links"             # recreate symlinks

    RSYNC_FLAGS="$RSYNC_FLAGS --perms"             # set the destination
permissions
    RSYNC_FLAGS="$RSYNC_FLAGS --times"             # transfer modification
times along with the files
    RSYNC_FLAGS="$RSYNC_FLAGS --omit-dir-times"    # omit directories when it
is preserving modification times
    RSYNC_FLAGS="$RSYNC_FLAGS --owner"             # set the owner of the
destination file to be the same as the source
                              # group is set to ossdes on the server side, so
there is no option for that here
    RSYNC_FLAGS="$RSYNC_FLAGS --chmod=Dg+rw,Fg+r"  # set permissions     
#    RSYNC_FLAGS="$RSYNC_FLAGS -D"              # option is equivalent to
--devices --specials - we do not need it
    RSYNC_FLAGS="$RSYNC_FLAGS --compress"          # compress file data during
the transfer
    RSYNC_FLAGS="$RSYNC_FLAGS --relative"          # use relative paths
    RSYNC_FLAGS="$RSYNC_FLAGS --numeric-ids"       # transfer numeric group and
user IDs

    RSYNC_FLAGS="$RSYNC_FLAGS --delete"            # delete extraneous files
from the receiving side

    RSYNC_FLAGS="$RSYNC_FLAGS --stats"             # print a verbose set of
statistics on the file transfer
        RSYNC_FLAGS="$RSYNC_FLAGS --human-readable -h" # output numbers in a
human-readable format

I have an rsyncd (root:root) with the following setup:
comment = data area for rsync 
path = something
log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
uid=root
gid=mygid
read only=false
write only=false
use chroot=true

rsync works as expected (at least does what I expect). when I comment out
uid=root in rsyncd.conf the owner will not be transferred any more, it will
remain nobody.

The precedence of --perms on the client side (including -o, -g) and the uid=
guid= settings on the server side are unclear, not documented and as I wrote
here depending on the settings rsync may even change its behavior.

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