[CentOS] rsync and users

[Benjamin Smith]

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 13:33, Mark Schoonover wrote:
> Todd Cary wrote:
> > Thanks to the encouragement of some people on this list, I am using
> > rsync to synchronize two servers: one is a backup to the other in case
> > the primary one fails.  By hand, I inserted the names of the users on
> > the primary server into the backup server.  So, now all works well.
> > 
> > /usr/bin/rsync -av -e ssh /home/ 192.168.0.22:/home/
> > 
> > My question is what would happen if the users were not on the backup
> 
> They just get set to the UID/GID of the source server.

I've used rsync to backup lots of data from a web server at an ISP. I want to 
make it available read-only to certain staff via SMB, but ran into posix 
permissions problems. Is there a way to simultaneously mount a partition 
without ownership properties, EG: as if it were a FAT partition? 

Also, if you mount the same filesystem twice, is there any problem with that? 

-Ben 
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