On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 at 09:54, Jerry Geis <jerry.g...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I "tar" up an archive the files have an owner bob, > when I extract that to another machine bob is there also but user number is > different. > So when I extract bob is no longer the owner of the files but someone else. > > Is there a good way to account for this ? > User ID on one box being different to the next box ? > > I was expecting to untar and bob still be the owner . > > The system has no way of knowing that bob:uid1 and bob:uid2 are the same person and in fact on a lot of systems they are not (aka if you downloaded a tar ball from my box and it had the user bob on it.. it definitely is not your bob). The ways to do this are any of the following or a list of ones not there. 1. find ./tree_you_untarred -uid <bob1_uid> -print0 | xargs -0 chown bob2 2. su bob2 (cd /tree_place_to_untar; tar xzvf <file you wanted to untar>) 3. use gnu tar's many options to create the tar file with the correct uid/gid you wanted using --owner --group (or a map if there are multiple). > Thanks, > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
