Re: [Hampshire] Rsync backup problems

On 23/12/06, Tim <xendistar@???> wrote:
> On Saturday 23 December 2006 20:57, Graham Bleach wrote:
> > On 23/12/06, Tim <xendistar@???> wrote:
> > > The user mit has an account on both machines with the same password but
> > > everytime I do the rsync command I get errors like:
> > >
> > > rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/home/mit/titan-backup/web" failed:
> > > Permission denied (13)
> > > *** Skipping everything below this failed directory ***
> >
> > What are the permissions and ownership of /home/mit on the machine sun?
> >
> > ls -ld /home/mit
> >
> > I suspect the mit user lacks the write privilege on the directory.
> >
> > G
>
> Permissions are:
>
> mit@sun:~$ ls -ld /home/mit
> drwxr-xr-x 12 mit mit 4096 2006.12.23.17:21 /home/mit
>
> mit@Titan:~$ ls -ld /home/mit
> drwxr-xr-x 74 mit mit 8192 2006-12-23 20:07 /home/mit
>
> Indentical??

Just wondering whether the two mit users need to have the same UID
number on the two machines? ... (sorry, not able to test this here and
now)