# remote\_directory preserve permissions?

**URL:** <https://discourse.chef.io/t/remote-directory-preserve-permissions/1716>\
**Category:** Chef Infra (archive)\
**Created:** [February 4, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/remote-directory-preserve-permissions/1716 "2011-02-04T00:48:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Steve\_Caissie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@Steve\_Caissie](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Steve_Caissie)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 12:48am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/remote-directory-preserve-permissions/1716/1 "2011-02-04T00:48:55Z")

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How do you preserve permissions with the remote\_directory resource? If  
it can’t be done with remote\_directory, is there another resource that  
can do a recursive copy and preserve permissions?

Steve Caissie  
Director of Operations

Vlingo

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**Author:** ![Jeffrey\_Hulten1](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.chef.io/jeffrey_hulten1/32/585_2.png) [@Jeffrey\_Hulten1](https://discourse.chef.io/u/Jeffrey_Hulten1)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2011, 1:38am UTC](https://discourse.chef.io/t/remote-directory-preserve-permissions/1716/2 "2011-02-04T01:38:12Z")

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Once a cookbook is imported into Chef the items in the files directory no  
longer have file permissions and owners per say. If you need to preserve  
owners and permissions that vary in a directory structure, I would probably  
use `tar`.

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:48 PM, Steve Caissie [stevec@vlingo.com](mailto:stevec@vlingo.com) wrote:

> How do you preserve permissions with the remote\_directory resource? If it  
> can’t be done with remote\_directory, is there another resource that can do a  
> recursive copy and preserve permissions?
> 
> Steve Caissie  
> Director of Operations
> 
> Vlingo
> 
> [stevec@vlingo.com](mailto:stevec@vlingo.com) [stevec@vlingomobile.com](mailto:stevec@vlingomobile.com)
> 
> \*\*\*Get Vlingo - the world’s most popular mobile voice application!  
> Download at [www.vlingo.com](http://www.vlingo.com) [http://www.vlingo.com/products.jsp](http://www.vlingo.com/products.jsp)! \*

--  
Jeffrey Hulten  
Principal Consultant at Automated Labs, LLC  
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