I am running cygwin as Administrator and tried this under both Win7 and Win10.
# touch test # chown Administrators.SYSTEM test # rsync -a test test2 # cp -a test test3 # ls -al test* -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 0 Jan 3 11:00 test -rw-r--r-- 1 myname None 0 Jan 3 11:00 test2 -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrators SYSTEM 0 Jan 3 11:00 test3 Note that perms are copied properly (which I validated by trying with other perm combos) So, why is 'cp -a' able to preserve ownership while 'rsync -a' fails and sets ownership to the login name? -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
