rsync - Jun 2007 - the --owner option won't work?

I want to sync the file ownership between two linux boxs. These two hosts
both have the same username, but the UID are not the same. For example
the UID of account "mozo" in source host is 500, and the target's
is 505.

Refer to the rsync document, it says rsync will try to map to the target UID
by username. But rsync client with -a --owner --group options will set
the owner UID of the target file to 500. Did I miss anything?

On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 05:21:06PM +0800, Mozo wrote:
> Refer to the rsync document, it says rsync will try to map to the
> target UID by username. But rsync client with -a --owner --group
> options will set the owner UID of the target file to 500. Did I miss
> anything?
You haven't given enough detail for us to do more than guess at the
problem.  My #1 guess is that you're using an rsync daemon with chroot
enabled (and no system support files installed), so rsync is forced to
preserve the usernames as if --numeric-ids was specified.  (This is
mentioned in the rsyncd.conf manpage.)

If that's not it, you'll need to be more specific in what command
you're
using.

..wayne..