rsync - Jul 2007 - File/Folder Ownership - Cygwin/Rsync - Is it possible to get around rsync taking file ownership?

Case point: 2 Servers (both with Windows Server 2k3 & cygwin). Running ssh
on
the destination server.

Problem: The rsync user will take ownership over any files copied over from
the source server. This takes ownership away from the administrators group,
thus disallowing inherited permissions.

Is there any way around not taking ownership away from the administrators
group and giving it to the rsync user?

I've seen this done with the cwRsync package, but unfortunately our security
group will allow the base cygwin packages. Any help is much appreciated!

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Thanks for the options, tried the below options with no luck.

This happened to me but im on unix platform. The options may still work for
you.

-PaRz --quiet --stats --delete --delete-excluded --copy-unsafe-links
--numeric-ids

The numeric ids option keeps the permissions the same on unix as they are on
the source machine. 



jhurd8025 wrote:
> 
> Case point: 2 Servers (both with Windows Server 2k3 & cygwin). Running
ssh
> on the destination server.
> 
> Problem: The rsync user will take ownership over any files copied over
> from the source server. This takes ownership away from the administrators
> group, thus disallowing inherited permissions.
> 
> Is there any way around not taking ownership away from the administrators
> group and giving it to the rsync user?
> 
> I've seen this done with the cwRsync package, but unfortunately our
> security group will allow the base cygwin packages. Any help is much
> appreciated!
> 
> 
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On 7/24/07, jhurd8025 <texasjhurd@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>
> Case point: 2 Servers (both with Windows Server 2k3 & cygwin). Running
ssh on
> the destination server.
>
> Problem: The rsync user will take ownership over any files copied over from
> the source server. This takes ownership away from the administrators group,
> thus disallowing inherited permissions.
>
> Is there any way around not taking ownership away from the administrators
> group and giving it to the rsync user?
If you are telling rsync to preserve ownership by passing -og or -a,
try turning ownership preservation off by removing the -og or putting
--no-o --no-g after the -a.  Also try with the environment variable
CYGWIN set to ntsec and try with it set to nontsec.  One of these
combinations is likely to do what you want.

Matt

On 7/24/07, jhurd8025 <texasjhurd@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> This takes ownership away from the administrators group,
> thus disallowing inherited permissions.
I bet there's some way to achieve the effect you want even without the
administrators group owning the files.

How exactly are the inherited permissions being "disallowed"?  Do they
apply to "CREATOR OWNER"?  If so, just change them to apply to
Administrators.  Is rsync clearing the flag that causes files to
inherit permissions from their parents, or is it creating entries of
its own that override the inherited ones?  If so, I suspect that
setting CYGWIN=nontsec on the receiving rsync (if it's remote, pass
--rsync-path='CYGWIN=nontsec rsync' to the local rsync) may stop both
of these behaviors, even if it does not fix the file ownership.  The
page
http://www.itefix.no/phpws/index.php?module=faq&FAQ_op=view&FAQ_id=12
supports my suspicion.

Matt