rsync and perms...

[Lars Kristiansen]

Jerry McAllister skrev:
> On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 04:20:42PM -0300, Agus wrote:
> 
>> 2007/6/16, Bill Campbell <freebsd at celestial.com>:
>>> On Sat, Jun 16, 2007, Agus wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> Trying to use rsync to update my home page in my freebsd, i am not able
>>> to
>>>> keep the owner,group and perms of the files...
>>>> I do all the updates in my ubntu. when everything is ready I run from my
>>>> ubuntu:
>>>> rsync -uav --delete --rsh=ssh /home/user/web/ root at ip_of_bsd:/root/web/
>>>>
>>>> I tried also with -pog and same results...
>>>>
>>>> Files are updated but the perms and owner and group changes to the ones
>>> in
>>>> my ubuntu....
>>>>
>>>> I want to keep the bsd existing perms and users...How can i do that??
>>> If the users and groups are the same on the system, the -a option
>>> to rsync should preserve owner, group, and permissions.
>>>
>>> One can also use rsync modules in the rsyncd.conf file to specify
>>> user and group.  Using rsync modules also has the advantages of
>>> restricting access to the directory specified in the module, and
>>> can also restrict access based on IP addresses.
>>>
>>> Bill
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>> OK...so i should first create a group an user with same ids on both
>> machines? or only the names will suffice?
>> And about the modules, i should be running the rsunc daemon which i am not,
>> so i think i ll do the first...
> 
> I believe the numerical UID and GID is what matters and has to
> be the same rather than the names.   But correct me if I am wrong.

from man rsync:
  --numeric-ids  don't map uid/gid values by user/group name


> 
> ////jerry
> 
> 
>> Thanks a lot for your help...
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