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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers 'cp' command: preserve group ownership Post 302751205 by Ikaro0 on Thursday 3rd of January 2013 11:51:10 AM
Old 01-03-2013
Hi Andrewkl.

Just to make sure that this question wasn't answer before on the forum I did a search with google with this statement:

use of "cp -p"

The second search result is a post on linuxquestions.org Smilie

Code:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/why-doesnt-cp-p-file-copy-file-and-preserve-ownership-169007/

Anyway, the problem has been described by Don Cragun, I'll add that root is the only one that could preserve the GID and UID with cp -p command (I guess).
 

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