Re: Mirroring a private account?
On Wed, 4 Dec 1996, Martin Schulze wrote:
> Good morning folks,
>
> could anybody please help me with a particular problem.
>
> I have important data on one machine I have an account on. It's the
> complete home directory. To provide better security and to be able to
> work from another machine I would like to mirror these data on another
> machine.
>
> How can I tell mirror to use a personal account and not the anonymous
> one?
>
> If I use
>
> remote_account=
use 'remote_user=.....' instead. It works fine for me and I am doing
exactly this kind of mirroring on several machines I have accounts on.
The main problem I find is that the mirror program runs as root and
therefore all the mirrored files are owned by root rather than me on
the local machine.
Cheers,
Carlo
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