Copying root owned directories...

[Donkergroen bvba]

Why do you want to do this as root ?
and then you chown to www ?
does user www have login enabled ?
Can't you do it as user www ?
You must have an admin user ....
Dirk
On 08 Aug 2007, at 19:48, Jerry LeVan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am puzzling over how to elegantly copy a root protected directory
> from one mac to another mac.
>
> ie I have a wiki and want to propagate changes on one machine to
> others as a sort of backup/convenience.
>
> For example I can push changes to my linux box by the following
> script ( transferToLinux.sh) invoked by something like (as root)
>
> transferToLinux.sh MacInfo
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/rsync -avu /usr/local/share/moin/mywiki/data/pages/$1/  
> root at linuxbox:/var/mywiki/data/pages/$1
> echo logging into linuxbox and executing "chown -R apache:apache / 
> var/mywiki/data/pages/$1"
> ssh root at linuxbox "chown -R apache:apache /var/mywiki/data/pages/$1"
>
> Unfortunately if linuxbox is a mac then ssh and rsync don't  
> authenticate since
> there is no root login on the mac...
>
> Are there any neat workarounds without having to enable the root  
> account on
> the macs?
>
> My current workaround is to push to a linux box and then pull from  
> the linux box
> with a similar rsync script (transferFromLinux.sh).
>
> #!/bin/sh
> /usr/bin/rsync -avu  root at linuxbox:/var/mywiki/data/pages/$1/ /usr/ 
> local/share/moin/mywiki/data/pages/$1
> chown -R www:www /usr/local/share/moin/mywiki/data/pages/$1
>
> Seems like there ought to be a simpler way...
> Thanks,
>
> Jerry
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