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and subject line Re: Bug#955217: tar ignores --owner/--group
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regarding tar ignores --owner/--group
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Package: tar
Version: 1.30+dfsg-7
Severity: normal
Steps to reproduce:
# mkdir 1
# touch 1/0
# tar -cvf 1.tar 1
# rm -r 1
# tar -xf 1.tar --owner=1000 --group=1000
# ls -l 1
Expected: files and directories are unpacked with UID and GID 1000.
Actual: owner and group didn't change.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1,
'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.4.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages tar depends on:
ii libacl1 2.2.53-6
ii libc6 2.30-2
ii libselinux1 3.0-1+b1
tar recommends no packages.
Versions of packages tar suggests:
ii bzip2 1.0.8-2
pn ncompress <none>
pn tar-doc <none>
pn tar-scripts <none>
ii xz-utils 5.2.4-1+b1
-- no debconf information
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Sepi Gair <[email protected]> writes:
> # tar -xf 1.tar --owner=1000 --group=1000
>
> Expected: files and directories are unpacked with UID and GID 1000.
> Actual: owner and group didn't change.
The --owner and --group options are only documented to have defined
behavior when *creating* archives, not when extracting them. So, sorry,
but this is not a bug.
Bdal
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