Wayne,

This is the bug:
That is stated poorly. And it is not invalid at all. 

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Subject: [Bug 8844] rsyncd ownership handling

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8844

Wayne Davison <way...@samba.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID

--- Comment #1 from Wayne Davison <way...@samba.org> 2012-08-12 17:18:51 UTC 
--- Taken from the rsyncd.conf manpage:

uid
    This parameter specifies the user name or user ID that file transfers to 
and from that module should take place as when the daemon was run as root.

That is stated poorly in that it is trying to say that the process runs as that 
user.  The gid parameter is similar.  Both default to running the process as 
"nobody", which has no rights to chown files to other users.  So, if you want 
to preserve ownership, you must run the receiving process as root, or perhaps 
settle for fake-super storing ownership info as xattrs (which will only be 
useful for people reading the files via rsync).

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