Why does the rsync running on the client must be root ? It just has to send the name of the owner of the file to the server which will chown it.
I misread it as the receiver at first glance, thus the confusion. You're right that the sender doesn't need to be root. However, this topic split into a parallel topic of allowing a receiving rsync on cygwin to be able to chown files in order to try to solve that deficiency.
OK. Anyway, have I correctly understood the way rsync should work? i.e. send the string 'testuser' as the owner instead of 11385? If yes, what have I done wrong?
Does anybody has the least idea?
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