rsync - Aug 2007 - Option --numeric-ids not the default?

Hi All,

I've browsed the history of the list, but can't seem to find an answer
to
something that I find quite surprising - why isn't --numeric-ids the
default when rsync is told to preserve permissions? It seems to me that
the current behaviour runs against the grain of more than a quarter
century of unix tradition, and certainly caught me by surprise the first
time I encountered it. Can anyone enlighten me?

regards,
Darryl Dixon
Winterhouse Consulting Ltd
http://www.winterhouseconsulting.com

Darryl Dixon wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I've browsed the history of the list, but can't seem to find 
> an answer to something that I find quite surprising - why 
> isn't --numeric-ids the default when rsync is told to 
> preserve permissions? It seems to me that the current 
> behaviour runs against the grain of more than a quarter 
> century of unix tradition, and certainly caught me by 
> surprise the first time I encountered it. Can anyone enlighten me?
> 
> regards,
> Darryl Dixon
> Winterhouse Consulting Ltd
> http://www.winterhouseconsulting.com
If you have (mostly) the same set of users (names)
 on two different systems,
 what are the odds that the numeric ids are identical?

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