On 3/3/21 8:53 AM, Jerry Geis wrote:
When I "tar" up an archive the files have an owner bob, when I extract that to another machine bob is there also but user number is different.
If you pack and extract as root, then numeric UID will be the same. But on different systems there may be different usernames that have that numeric UID.
Incidentally: sometimes we enable SGID bit on a directory (to have everything that is created in it inherit the group that directory belongs to). tar will be one of the tools that will break it: extracted archive will have group as it was in the archived original (numeric GID that is, if both archiving and un-archiving was performed by root).
I hope, this helps. Valeri
So when I extract bob is no longer the owner of the files but someone else. Is there a good way to account for this ? User ID on one box being different to the next box ? I was expecting to untar and bob still be the owner . Thanks, Jerry _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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