Re: extracting tar with nonexistant users
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > I tried extracting a tar tape on a machine which did not > have the same users as the machine on which the tar tape was > created, it resulted in all the files created being owned by root. > > I would have expected that it should have created the files > with the same uid/gids as on the original machine. > > Is this normal ? > > Thanks > > Lennard Tar normally munges the permissions (I think using your current umask) and makes all the files created belong to the user running tar. That is normal behavior. If you want the permissions/user-ids to be preserved (and no, it won't make a darn bit of difference if the users aren't defined on the machine, as it's the user-id number which is set on the file, and it doesn't have to be in /etc/passwd) then use the '-p' parameter for tar. -- Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: extracting tar with nonexistant users
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I tried extracting a tar tape on a machine which did not > have the same users as the machine on which the tar tape was > created, it resulted in all the files created being owned by root. > > I would have expected that it should have created the files > with the same uid/gids as on the original machine. > Yes. If you want to extract the same u/gids use the option "--same-owner". Otherwise the files become the property of the extractor. Graeme
extracting tar with nonexistant users
Hello, I tried extracting a tar tape on a machine which did not have the same users as the machine on which the tar tape was created, it resulted in all the files created being owned by root. I would have expected that it should have created the files with the same uid/gids as on the original machine. Is this normal ? Thanks Lennard
