So I downloaded the tar file, wget.... running as root (su -). Looking at the file permissions owner and group are root but when I untar the file the new directory and all of the files have the UID and GID set to 1000, which was another user and not the one that I logged in with.....
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Brian Mathis <brian.mat...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Tom Bishop <bisho...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hoping someone can help me fix something that I apparently messed up, i > have > > the issue that when I untar a file as root the uid and gid that get set > are > > not roots'. I had change a user uid and gid to 1000 via usermo -u > etc.... > > but somehow it appears to have effected the root user. When I touch > files > > as root the correct uid and gid are root, however when untaring an > archive > > the directory and files are uid and gid =1000. Hope someone can point me > in > > the right direction....oh yea, running centos 5.4, and when I run the > > command id = uid=0, gid=0, etc,,,,all appear to be right for > root....Thanks > > in advance. > > When you untar as root, the UID/GID is always set to that of the user > who created the tar file. Only if you untar as a normal user does it > change the ownership to the user who untarred it. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS@centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >
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