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Bug#499943: marked as done (unison: Fails to chown when trying to sync ownership)

Your message dated Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:13:52 +0200
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and subject line Re: Bug#499943: unison: Fails to chown when trying to sync ownership
has caused the Debian Bug report #499943,
regarding unison: Fails to chown when trying to sync ownership
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Package: unison
Version: 2.27.57-1+b1
Severity: normal

I am trying to sync over ssh as an ordinary user. The folders contain files with different owners, however I am always a 
member of the group that has rw access to the files.

Since I want to sync owner/group/permission I have set owner = yes and group = yes in the profile. I have carefully 
created user and group accounts on both machines, with identical numeric ids. Still I have set numericids = false, in 
case of future mistakes.

Now when the ownership of a file is changed on one side, unison tries to chown the file on the other side - as intended. 
However, since I am not the su the chown command fails.

I believe this is not the intended behavior when syncing file ownership. 

Note: I have tried running sudo unison, but this fails because root does not have a certificate required to connect to 
the remote ssh.

Proposed behavior: make unison perform a sudo chown and request a passwd from the user when needed.

Ferry

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_NL.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages unison depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.7-13     GNU C Library: Shared libraries

Versions of packages unison recommends:
ii  openssh-client [ssh-client]   1:5.1p1-2  secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh

unison suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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--- Begin Message --- 
Control: tags -1 wontfix

I agree with Sylvain's position that this is not a bug in Unison and the
proposition to run sudo is unacceptable. Hence, I'm closing this bug.

Cheers,

-- 
Stéphane

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