[Please start a new thread for a new topic.] On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 12:38 -0500, Dave Mielke wrote: > Is there a way to translate file ownership during transfer. For example, can > it > be done such that all files owned by user1 end up being owned by user2, and > all > files owned by user3 end up being owned by user4. The actual problem we're > trying to solve is that some, but not all, users don't exist on the target > system so we'd like the ownership for users which do exist to remain but to > have a default owner (or, even better, set of owners) for the rest.
The --usermap option, which is integrated in the current development rsync and available in a maintained patch "usermap.diff" for rsync 3.0.*, provides some flexibility in mapping file owners. Unfortunately, looking at the man page, there doesn't appear to be a way to map all names that are missing on the receiving side. It's a very natural extension, so I think it ought to be added, but whether anyone is interested in actually doing it, we'll see. Note that there's no such thing as a set of owners on POSIX filesystems. Maybe you would want an ACL granting multiple people access, but that's something you would have to do yourself with a "find ... -exec setfacl ..." command after running rsync. -- Matt -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
