Hello, I have a XP Pro laptop which has Cygwin installed (with ssh). I run a backup script on a Debian box which rsyncs some directories from XP box to a partition on Debian box using rsync via ssh. The command is something like (rsync script is called as root on Debian and user "root" on the XP box is an admin as well):
rsync --delete --modify-window=10 --force -Rvaue ssh --exclude-from=$EXCLUDESFILE --progress \ xp-box:"/cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/user1 /cygdrive/c/Documents\ and\ Settings/user2" /mnt/backups/xp-daily-00; The problem is that uid and gid are different for the users on the XP box and on the Debian box. When a user browses the backups from XP using ssh (sftp actuall) on Debian box, he is denied permissions. What do Cygwin users do in this case? What I desire is that the backups of the XP box be kept on the Debian box with all users' permissions intact (or as much as possible, for security and privacy). Thanks. -- Please reply to this list only. I read this list on its corresponding newsgroup on gmane.org. Replies sent to my email address are just filtered to a folder in my mailbox and get periodically deleted without ever having been read. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/