rsync-3.1.0 --chown, --usermap, and --groupmap ignored?

[Paul Slootman]

On Sun 13 Oct 2013, Jed Brown wrote:

> The man page describes options --chown, --usermap, and --groupmap, but
> these seem to be silently ignored beyond validating that the user and
> groups do indeed exist.  Is the following supposed to work?

No, because you're not running the rsync command as the superuser,
and not using the --owner / --group options.


Paul