On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a way to force rsync to set a specific owner and group on > destination files? I have managed to get the permissions set up the > way I want, but the owner and group are still defaulting to a numeric > id instead of the correct owner and group. Do your user and group names on both your source and destination systems have matching numeric values? Linux/UNIX systems carry the numeric values and look up the text values in /etc/passwd and /etc/group for display. If you are seeing numeric values, that would imply there are no matching entries in those files. If you adjust your numeric values for the owner and group to match on source and destination systems, your systems will match up. Brett