Re: Correcting permissions on files

["Scott St. John" <scott@scottah.com>]

At 03:38 PM 11/1/2002 +0100, you wrote:
Or tar + plain rsh, no need to encrypt all that with ssh. Takes ages.
and the whole tree will be copied, permissions and all, even remapping
uids if the usernames on the new machine use different ones.
You do have to configure your old machine temporarily to trust
newmachine enough to give people on it root access though, but that's
all.

Heh, I have been sitting here with Perl and Awk books all morning and it's
really this simple?  You guys are going to have me off my Windows
desktop completely if this keeps up :)

Thank you!

-Scott