# Sync file ownership, and permissions **URL:** https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-file-ownership-and-permissions/143 **Category:** Feature **Created:** [May 14, 2014, 2:49pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-file-ownership-and-permissions/143 "2014-05-14T14:49:25Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 2
### Author: ![calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/user_avatar/forum.syncthing.net/calmh/32/15311_2.png) [@calmh](https://forum.syncthing.net/u/calmh) #### Post date: [May 14, 2014, 3:11pm UTC](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-file-ownership-and-permissions/143/2 "2014-05-14T15:11:23Z")
Permissions are synchronized. Owner and group would require running as root; this is neither recommended nor supported right now. There would be a bunch of corner cases to solve in that case as well… --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.syncthing.net/t/sync-file-ownership-and-permissions/143)._