[ale] weird tgz shenanigans

[Jeff Rose]

That makes sense.  the info page for says the --same-owner flag will
attempt to preserve ownership.  But I don't understand why ownership
will be correct if untarred by jeff, walter or michele but if untarred
by root michele owns the files.  

On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:48, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> The original files were packaged by some one with the same UID/GID as
> Michele. Remember, these are just some numbers that the running OS
> associates with what is in /etc/passwd. If the UID of the files doesn't
> match anyone in /etc/passwd, they won't show up with a user name in the
> UID field, just a number.
> 
> When the UID of the tarball is set to a valid UID on the machine, the
> entire tarball will unwrap with that UID unless flags are set that force
> it to otherwise. There a flags that can force this on the package making
> side as well.
> 
 
-- 
Jeff Rose

jojerose at mindspring.com



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