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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Ownership of files on ftp-master
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<<On Fri, 4 May 2001 16:58:27 -0400 (EDT), Wes Kurdziolek <wkurdzio@cslab.vt.edu> said:

> Can we come to an agreement on which user and group should own the files
> on ftp-master? I'm watching the most of the files on rsync come down w/ a
> UID and GID of 100 while others have a UID of 758 and a GID of 100. I'd
> prefer if all the files were owned by nobody/nobody. Does anyone object to
> that?

I'd suggest instead that you run rsync as an unprivileged user so that
it can't change the ownership of the files.  I am running rsync under
`su -m mirror' and it seems to be able to deal just fine.

-GAWollman


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