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unpacked tarball owners
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Fall)
Wed Nov 18 15:59:38 1998
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1998 15:58:16 -0500 (EST)
From: Greg Fall <gmf@dweezil.dyn.ml.org>
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tar clearly has some feature/s I don't understand.
I often dl tarballs as a regular user, then have an xterm with 'su -'
running in it, which I use to copy the tarballs from user areas to
/usr/local/targz ("cp" instead of "mv" because ownership goes to root
like I want it to that way). Typically, root then goes to
/usr/local/src and unpacks things; e.g. "tar xzvf ../targz/foo.tar.gz"
The owner of the files and directories that are unpacked is hardly ever
root, however. Nor is it necessarily the user who owns the desktop
the 'su -' xterm runs in. Does tar use ids attached to the tarball to
assign it an owner? I see that tar has a --same-owner option, but I
don't use it.
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