rsync between WinNT and Linux (--perms --owner --group)

[René Berber]

Richard Ivarson wrote:
[snip]
> On the Linux PC there are the same two users and the group.

Very unlikely.  Your concept of user/group is wrong.

[snip]
> Does Cygwin's rsync send the user and group names to the Linux rsync at
> all?

No, rsync used uid / gid, the numeric user/group id, not the names, and unless
you did something to synchronize them they are different.

Type `id` on a Cygwin terminal, those numbers is what rsync (and tar, scp, etc.)
record, the username could be anything and it's not used.
-- 
René Berber


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