I want to use rsync to transfer files from my computer to a remote Linux system. Regardless of the local file's group ownership, I want to set these values on the remote side.
If I was on the remote Linux system, I could create the directory and set the ownership and permissions as:
mkdir my_directory
chown :my_group my_directory
chmod 775 my_directory
If I create the directory locally and then use rsync (remember, I don't have my_group locally), I do:
rsync -ae ssh --chmod=ug+rw,Dug+rwx my_directory remoteserver:dest
That works, but I cannot figure out how to set the group owner through rsync. If I do a chmod g+s dest
, my_directory has the correct group owner but all of the files inside have the incorrect group owner.
Best Answer
Right this minute, I'm looking for a way to do this in the rsync operation myself, as oppose to in a subsequent operation. I want some files not to be world readable and assign a group, thereby restricting access to the remote server processes within that group. But I haven't found one.
The only thing I can imagine is to:
and then run: