[BLUG] scp -p preserving ownership through root user

[Mark Krenz]

I have some files that are owned on machine A by user X.   As the root
user on machine A, I run

  scp -p files root at machineB

  The mode and modification times are preserved, but the ownership is
not. I know that with rsync -a the ownership is preserved, but
according ot the scp man page, ownership isn't preserved with -p.  I
just got burned by this.  Tell me if I'm insane or not but I could swear
that this worked before.  It might have had this in a much older version
of scp, like the old non-openssh version of ssh.

Know your options.

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Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/