Re: [BLUG] scp -p preserving ownership through root user

I always use dump/restore to clone machines like this. --SS

>> Ah! I know why the --numeric-uid option made a difference. You were
>> copying the entire system, including passwd/group files. This means
>> that the first time you copied the files, midway through the process
>> passwd/group were over-written and what had earlier been the sendmail
>> user became someone else.
>>
>>
>
> Yep. I was making a physical machine into a virtual machine with a
> different sized disk :)
>
>
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