Brian Dessent wrote: > Matthias Meyer wrote: > >> Another strangely effect is that "ls -alnh /" lists all files as owned by >> the actual user. >> If I do that as another user the files will also be listet as owned by >> him, the user who runs the ls. >> >> What is the reason for that? > > You instructed Cygwin to not read or write any ACLs by setting nontsec. > It has to fill in those fields with something so it just lists whatever > the current user is as the owner (just as it would have had to do with a > filesystem like FAT or an OS like Win95 that doesn't record an owner.) > >> Is there a possibility to backup the files from different users (e.g. >> with rsync) and restore them with the same owner and permissions which >> they have at backup time? > > Certainly not with nontsec in effect. > > Brian Thanks, I've tried also ntsec, binmode and "". All of this three list the true file owner with "ls -anlh". But as before, rsync -a create the files with the user who runs the rsync command. Also rsync -aA with or without --numeric-ids have this behaviour.
I would believe that I have a very stupid failure. I can not believe that it is not possible to backup and restore the file owner. -- Don't panic -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
