I must be doing something wrong. First off, I added the -p flag.

When I scp a file from my AIX fileserver to another AIX or HP-UX
server, the final user and group are, 0 0, ie. root:system (AIX) or
root:sys (HPUX).

Here is my test file:
ls -l pasdvu.htm
-rw-r-----   1 pasdev   oradba        17959 Mar 21 13:57 pasdvu.htm


Here is the command line I'm running:
scp -p /home/orasa/pasdvu.htm hpuxserver:/home/orasa/pasdvu.htm


Here is the end result:
ls -l
-rw-r-----   1 root       sys          17959 Mar 21 13:57 pasdvu.htm

Thanks Miles

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"miles" <my_spam_account@shaw.ca> writes:

> I must be doing something wrong. First off, I added the -p flag.
>
> When I scp a file from my AIX fileserver to another AIX or HP-UX
> server, the final user and group are, 0 0, ie. root:system (AIX) or
> root:sys (HPUX).
>
> Here is my test file:
> ls -l pasdvu.htm
> -rw-r-----   1 pasdev   oradba        17959 Mar 21 13:57 pasdvu.htm
>
>
> Here is the command line I'm running:
> scp -p /home/orasa/pasdvu.htm hpuxserver:/home/orasa/pasdvu.htm
>
>
> Here is the end result:
> ls -l
> -rw-r-----   1 root       sys          17959 Mar 21 13:57 pasdvu.htm
>
> Thanks Miles

-p      Preserves modification times, access times, and modes
from the original file.

Note that it makes no mention of file ownership, however.

Curious if

scp -p /home/orasa/pasdvu.htm orasa@hpuxserver:/home/orasa

does what you want?



--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/

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Hi miles

> When I scp a file from my AIX fileserver to another AIX or HP-UX
> server, the final user and group are, 0 0, ie. root:system (AIX) or
> root:sys (HPUX).
>
> Here is my test file:
> ls -l pasdvu.htm
> -rw-r-----   1 pasdev   oradba        17959 Mar 21 13:57 pasdvu.htm
>
>
> Here is the command line I'm running:
> scp -p /home/orasa/pasdvu.htm hpuxserver:/home/orasa/pasdvu.htm
>
>
> Here is the end result:
> ls -l
> -rw-r-----   1 root       sys          17959 Mar 21 13:57 pasdvu.htm

It does not make sense to transport ownerships from one system to
another system, since you cannot rely on, that the user/group ids are
the same.
In worst case highly security relevant files yould become accesible by
common user groups.

Florian

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In comp.sys.hp.hpux miles <my_spam_account@shaw.ca> wrote:
> Here is my test file:
> ls -l pasdvu.htm
> -rw-r-----   1 pasdev   oradba        17959 Mar 21 13:57 pasdvu.htm
>
> Here is the command line I'm running:
> scp -p /home/orasa/pasdvu.htm hpuxserver:/home/orasa/pasdvu.htm

You are doing that as root, i.e. login as root to hpuxserver?

> Here is the end result:
> ls -l
> -rw-r-----   1 root       sys          17959 Mar 21 13:57 pasdvu.htm

The target file will have the owner of the account you used to
authenticate on the target system.

If you want to preserve ownership, etc, you may want to look into
running rsync over ssh, or script an sftp batch.


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MfG/Best regards
helmut springer

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