From: Tom Bishop <bisho...@gmail.com>
>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.....
Which is the normal behavior...
If you tar /etc, you want to preserve file ownership...
If you untar etc.tar and all files would become owned by root, it would break
many things...
If you need, look at -o or --owner tar options (man tar will help)...
JD
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