> Hoping someone can help me fix something that I apparently messed up, i > have the issue that when I untar a file as root the uid and gid that get set > are not roots'. I had change a user uid and gid to 1000 via usermo -u <snip> If I understand you correctly, the user's files were all uid and gid 1000 (please don't tell me that you're letting RedHat's idiocy of creating a new user as a new group of their very own, rather than, say, a member of the group "users"), and you tar'd and then untar'd it, it *should* be the user's, tar is doing what it's supposed to do, and saving permissions and ownership. mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos