René Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx> writes: > Am 22.01.21 um 21:40 schrieb Jason Pyeron: > ... >> xsnprintf(header->uid, sizeof(header->uid), "%07o", 0); >> xsnprintf(header->gid, sizeof(header->gid), "%07o", 0); >> strlcpy(header->uname, "root", sizeof(header->uname)); >> strlcpy(header->gname, "root", sizeof(header->gname)); > > Adding support for using a custom user and group should be easy. Is > this just a cosmetic thing? Regular users would ignore the user info in > the archive, and root should not be used for extracting, and on systems > that don't have a logwatch user this wouldn't make a difference anyway, > right? I am not particularly interested in cosmetics, but it probably is OK to make uname/gname overridable. I do not see any point in uid/gid numeric values overridable, though. Just like user names and group names do not name the same user and group on every machine, uid/gid are even less so.
