Rsync Permissions Issue
I'm trying to use rsync to back up from one computer to another.
Recently I had used NIS so all my systems had the same user on them so
there was never a permission issue. Now I'm trying to back up from my
iMac to my Debian server. I can't put the iMac on NIS (or probably
could, but it would NOT be fun to set up, I'm sure).
In the past I could use:
rsync -av server::Writing /data/Writing
And all my writing would be backed up from the local /data/writing to
the server. Now that I'm not using NIS, I use:
rsync -av me@server::Writing /data/Writing
I get errors when I do that, so after some tinkering, I got some
directories to back up and I see that rsync is saving the files as
"nobody:nogroup" or with the user number 65534.
My understanding of rsync is that if I use "name@system::Service" that
it logs into that server using the specified username, but since rsync
is saving files as "nobody," then that's not happening. I do have the
systems set up so the server does not allow password logins via ssh
and the guest (the iMac) is known user with the rsa id on the server
and when I want to ssh to the server, just "ssh server" will get me
logged in.
What do I need to do to tell rsync on the host system (the server) to
use the specified user name?
Thanks for any help on this!
Hal
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