I have a directory, /root/backup, that I mount and run a bunch of rysnc scripts against to backup my box. I'm running into a very recent problem where when I run this command:

/bin/mount -o username=user,password=password //192.168.0.6/centos_server /root/backup

a directory that once looked like this:

drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Dec 11 10:03 backup

goes to this:

drwxrwxrwx 9 www www 0 Dec 11 10:38 backup

It changes from root to www (another user on my system) and I have no idea why. When I look at the /mount/procs file, I see this:

//192.168.0.6/centos_server /root/backup cifs rw,mand,unc=\\192.168.0.6\centos_server,username=user,uid=0,noforceuid,gid=0,noforcegid,addr=192.168 .0.6,posixpaths,acl,rsize=16384,wsize=57344 0 0

so it looks like the uid is correct...

I believe this is what is causing my rsync scripts to fail (they only copy over directories and not the files in those directorys and I get a lot of permissions failed errors)

All of this is run as root in cron jobs

as a note, here is a sample rsync command:

/usr/bin/rsync -xahP --delete --exclude=backup/ --exclude=*.class --link-dest=/root/backup/root /root/ /root/backup/root


Any help would be greatly appreciated

sorry to reply to my own post - I have figured out the rsync issue - for some reason, centos didn't like the -xahP (works on my ubuntu laptop) but changing it to -xr copies the files (before the 'r', it still copied the entire directory structure recursively, just not the files).

So the mount showing up as a different user doesnt seem to affect this, but I am still curious why it changes owners when mounted...

Hi
I think you could try the option uid=0 like:
but be aware do you really want to do that as root?
Maybe you better setup a "backup" user with less power.

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I had thought about setting up one with less power, but then I ran into the issue that that user still needed a lot of power so that I can back up all of the users, root (I have some scripts I want preserved), and parts of some directories like rc, etc, httpd, etcetera...

But as the /mount/procs showed, it has the correct uid (0) but the mount ownership per the ls command is showing up as a different user, which had me concerned.

IMHO
is the problem.
I think your system is choosing a different uid. I don't know why "www" is used as you posted before.
You should give "uid=0,gid=0,forceuid,forcegid".

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