> In the %post section, I add a user called 'jason' then I copy over some > *.tgz files from the NFS server. The owner and group for those files is > root. If I change the owner/group to 'jason' and untar the files into > /home/jason, all the files are owned by jason but the directories created > are owned by root. I suppose this is because I untar them as root. I need > those directories to belong to jason. I could do a chmod on the > directories but I was hoping there was a different answer. My question > is......is there a way to 'login' as jason and untar the files in the %post > section? Why not do all command you want to do as jason in it's name like using: su - -c "the command that you want to do with params..." jason This is important, especially for tar which acts differently when you are root or not. Anne
