On August 19, 2014 4:27:11 PM CEST, Markus Rosjat <ros...@ghweb.de> wrote: >Hello, > >this has been asked befor though but since searching the net always >tells me it should work but not when I try to do it .. I'll ask >again. > >what I want to do is: > - copy keep ownership and permission when I rsync a file or directory > >what I get is: > - I have a user on both machines who is in wheel (this should make it >possible to do this) > - when I $sudo rsync -a /some/random/file me@remotemachine:/tmp I get >the file synced > - file has owner someone:someone and 0600 > - when I check the permission and owner on the remote machine > - file has owner me:wheel and 0644 > >what I can do but dont want to: > - I can enable root ssh access > - I rsync as root and the owner and permission gets copied even the >user doesnt exist on the remote machine > >Is there any other thing I miss with the sudo approach?
Do you by any chance have a forced_command set up in .ssh/authorized_keys? /Alexander
