rsync - Oct 2005 - how to change owner of dest.

I'm going to setup rsync for web pages synchronziation between two
linux servers.

how do I change files, folders owner of dest ?

for example
the files owner of remote host is uid mary, after executed rsync for
file synchronization, the files owner of local host will be uid peter,
instead of mary

which option or paramter to do this ?

On Mon 24 Oct 2005, Adrian Mak wrote:
> I'm going to setup rsync for web pages synchronziation between two
> linux servers.
> 
> how do I change files, folders owner of dest ?
> 
> for example
> the files owner of remote host is uid mary, after executed rsync for
> file synchronization, the files owner of local host will be uid peter,
> instead of mary
You could setup an rsync server on the receiver, and set
    uid = mary
in the appropriate module.


Paul Slootman

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 12:44:01PM +0800, Adrian Mak
wrote:
> the files owner of remote host is uid mary, after executed rsync for
> file synchronization, the files owner of local host will be uid peter,
> instead of mary
If you are copying files via remote-shell rsync, simply login to the
destination host as mary and that will be the default owner for the
files.  Alternately, if the destination rsync is running as root, rsync
will attempt to preserve the owner (with the -o, --owner option), in
which case you need to make sure that username "mary" exists on the
destination so that rsync can match it up.  Also, if you are using an
rsync daemon with chroot enabled, you'll need to either make sure that
mary has an identical user-ID number, or you'll need to place all the
necessary user-identification files (e.g. /etc/passwd) into the chroot
area for rsync to be able to match up the names and come up with the
right local id number (or you can simply disable chroot).

..wayne..