[Klug-general] Permissions problem

[Michael E. Rentell]

On 14/12/11 12:34, George Prowse wrote:
> On 14/12/2011 11:38, Michael E. Rentell wrote:
>> Good morning all,
>> Is anyone able to tell me what I've done wrong this time?!
>>
>> I use grsync to backup the entire contents of my /home/me/ directory on
>> my main desktop PC to a similar one called /home/me/Backups on my second
>> desktop. I do this, over the domestic wired ethernet, by mounting the
>> remote Backups directory under /mnt/.. and then using grsync to copy the
>> stuff over.
>>
>> This used to work but now I am not sure. There are, of course, thousands
>> of files and they whip up quite quickly but literally dozens of them
>> appear in red and one of the ones I have been able to read says:
>>
>> rsync:recv_generator:mkdir "directory-details" failed. Permission
>> denied(13)
>>
>> I have changed the permissions on the remote machine with
>>
>> chown -R root:root /home/Backups
>>
>> and everything in it went to root. So I then logged on to the second
>> machine as root (it's PCLinuxOS) and let it run like that. And of course
>> the grsync from my main machine runs under sudo because it is Ubuntu.
>>
>> I think new files are being delivered to the remote machine, but it does
>> not look like any new directories are being created or their contents.
>>
>> All ideas would be very welcome at this time (consultant speak!).
>>
>> Ta.
>>
>> MikeR
>
> I wouldn't ever chown root to another user, just mount it in fstab with:
>
> rw,user,auto,umask=0000
>
> That's the easiest (and least secure) way. A more secure way is pass 
> the uid for a user and add that id in fstab.
>
> George
>
Sorry - I just find that baffling. Does anyone know what 'Permission 
denied (13)' means in grsync? and what I can do to get around that problem.
MikeR