unpacking as root gives weird ownership...
Andy Firman
andy at firman.us
Thu Nov 11 16:27:07 GMT 2004
On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:11:37AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Nov 11), Andy Firman said:
> > On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:52:55AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > > > Why wouldn't it unpack with root, wheel ownership?
> > >
> > > Tarfiles extracted as root preserve the original ownership of the
> > > files. You can use the -o flag to make all the extracted files
> > > owned by root.
> >
> > Hmm. I am Linux guy getting into FreeBSD. This is new to me and this
> > doesn't happen on any Linux flavor I have been on.
>
> It's been standard procedure for tar as far back as I can remember, on
> all OSes.
You are right. I spoke too quickly as I am just starting to work as root
more and more. Normally everything is done with sudo.
When I use the -o switch it still won't unpack as root:wheel.
Doesn't really matter, just being curious.
Thanks,
Andy
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