Hi,
> I've browsed the history of the list, but can't seem to find > an answer to something that I find quite surprising - why > isn't --numeric-ids the default when rsync is told to > preserve permissions?
because all archive-tools do preserve the rights linked to the username and not linked to the uid. e.g. for TAR you need --numeric-owner, if you don't want to change the uid. I find this behaviour quite useful, if you have more than one box, maybe different *nix distribuitions, but files owned by user X belong to user X on the other box, even or especially when they don't have the same UID there. Preserving uids with --numeric-ids seems to me more a special case - used with rsnapshot, for example, or for using rsync when booting from a rescure-linux-cd like knoppix, or similar, that use different usernames/ids. regards. Werner Maier. -- Werner Maier, Dipl.-Ing. Univ. Friedrich-Bergius-Ring 15 fidion GmbH 97076 Würzburg -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
