On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 8:17 AM <cyg...@kosowsky.org> wrote: > So, why is 'cp -a' able to preserve ownership while 'rsync -a' fails > and sets ownership to the login name?
Rsync is rather old-school Unix-oriented, so it only checks if its uid is 0 to see if it should try to chown things. You can give it the --super option to tell it to try root things when you're a non-0 user, which works in my testing. ..wayne.. -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
