[NBLUG/talk] Maintaining ownership of files

[Todd Cary]

Nicolas -

Since it has been over two years since I moved /home from one machine to 
another, I had forgotten that I made a tarball with the "-p" option.  
Your response jarred my foggy memory.

Thanks....

Todd

nicolas vigier wrote:

>On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>When I do
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>> scp -rp * 192.168.0.12:/home/mydir
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>>I lose the ownerships; they become "root".
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>That's because you use the root account on the remote machine to send
>the files. The files are owned by the user you use to send the files.
>And there doesn't seem to be an option with scp to keep ownerships,
>you'll have to do that yourself (after checking the UIDs are the same
>on both systems).
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>Nicolas
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