Re: [CentOS] moving accounts with permissions.

Dave wrote:

good. The problem is permissions were not transfered and i thought that was the point of -p for scp. Did i miss something is there a command i have to use for the new box to pick up the permissions from the old box?

The -p preserves the date/time and modes, but not the actual UID/GID. Try using rsync with ssh instead, something like:

rsync -avz -e ssh --delete /home/ user@host:/home

This has the added benefit that if it fails midway (network dies, e.g.) you can just re-run it to start where you left off. Note the trailing slash on the source /home/, that's important.

-te