Is there a way then to have dual ownership or have the same user on
multiple computers?
The problem is when I backup files over ssh to an external drive, they
are owned by the server. Later when I want to back up directly to the
drive, I will not have permissions to do so.

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Kosala Atapattu
<kosala.atapattu (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
> Sorry for the delay, just now went through your /etc/passwd. After
> reading once more through your mail, if I understand correctly, when
> you create a file through ssh, login to the _server_ with a user
> account in the _server_ from a client, the files you create will be
> owned but the _server_ account you logged in with. This is the correct
> behavior.
>
> Changing this behavior is not something I tried before.
>
> Kosala
>
> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:24 PM, Danny Kutner <getisboy (at) gmail (dot) com [email concealed]> wrote:
>> I just got OpenSSH running through Cygwin and there are some ownership
>> issues. It seems that any file I create over ssh is then owned by the
>> host user (DELL4550\Family), not the client computer
>> (DELLNOTEBOOK05\Family). This creates problems when running backup
>> programs that utilize ssh.
>>
>> Is there a way to correct this?
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --
>> - Danny
>>
>
>
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