Created attachment 10544 [details] Proposed patch for rsyncd.conf.yo The manpage of rsyncd.conf says when "use chroot" is enabled this is "as though --numeric-ids had been specified". When rsyncing a file from host A to host B using: rsync -av sometestfile rsync://some_test_user@hostB/backup/ the uid and the gid of the source file on host A are not set accordingly on host B. Even not if --numeric-ids is specified explicitly, on both server and client side. Relevant part of the server config: use chroot = yes [backup] list = yes path = /zdata/backup/ comment = Some comment read only = no auth users = some_test_user secrets file = /usr/local/etc/rsync/rsyncd.secrets numeric ids = yes I fixed that by adding "uid = root" to rsyncd.conf. The manpage does not mention that behavior at all.
I've improved the "use chroot" & "numeric ids" sections to make this a little clearer.