[NBLUG/talk] Maintaining ownership of files

[nicolas vigier]

On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Todd Cary wrote:

> When I do
> 
>  scp -rp * 192.168.0.12:/home/mydir
> 
> I lose the ownerships; they become "root".

That's because you use the root account on the remote machine to send
the files. The files are owned by the user you use to send the files.
And there doesn't seem to be an option with scp to keep ownerships,
you'll have to do that yourself (after checking the UIDs are the same
on both systems).

Nicolas