On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 11:41:01PM +0200, Ferry Toth wrote: > Hello Sylvain, > > It may be a matter of perspective: > > I regard unison as a superior alternative to the Windows Briefcase, as both to > bidirectional synchronization, except that unison uses a more efficient > transfer mechanism and is more or less platform independent. > > In the same way rsync compares to rcp, a unidirectional synchronization, with > rsync the more efficient. > > With unison now providing owner and group synchronization I was hoping that it > work in my situation. > > Note that using Briefcase from a Windows client to a samba server actually > does > get the ownerships right although it works painfully slow and unreliable > across > a WAN due to issues with the SMB protocol. > > So, as far my research goes, unison can not be replaced by anything. And I > thank you for that! > > Albeit not a bug, but a new feature I sure would like to circumvent unix file > ownership protection by occasionally typing the sudo password. In the mean > time > we will consider to set up a root ssh connection and sudo unison when the > ownership needs to be chown. If that would work, using the same profile from > root and user? >
Humm, from my personnal use case, I synchronize with each each user account, the file related to their account (i.e. no need to synchronize ownership). If you really would like to fill this feature request, I propose you to move to unison mailing list to discuss this issue. I have no power to bring this feature in unison and maybe other unison user could help you. In the meantime (once you will have started discussing this on http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/unison-users/), I will mark this bug as forwarded upstream. Regards Sylvain Le Gall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
