[BLUG] scp -p preserving ownership through root user

[Shei, Shing-Shong]

This is because the files on machine A is created by root, the user who
is running the scp.  If you want to preserve all information, you need
to use tar:

ssh machineB -n tar cCf /path/to/file - . | tar xf -

(Or you have to 'su X' on machine A before you do the scp.)

Shing-Shong

Mark Krenz wrote:
> 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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