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Re: [SLE] Freaky File Owner:Group
- From: Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 02:02:35 +0200
- Message-id: <200205050202.35800.andjoh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On Sunday 05 May 2002 01:52, Philip Amadeo Saeli wrote:
> Note that this will only occur if you do the tar extraction under the root
> account - a normal user does not have sufficiently privilege to set file
> UID/GID.
That's very true, I forgot about that.
I tested this, and tar xvf still gives the original uid/gid (when run as root,
that is). Hmm, odd.
Still, one shouldn't run things like compilations as root anyway.
Anders
> Note that this will only occur if you do the tar extraction under the root
> account - a normal user does not have sufficiently privilege to set file
> UID/GID.
That's very true, I forgot about that.
I tested this, and tar xvf still gives the original uid/gid (when run as root,
that is). Hmm, odd.
Still, one shouldn't run things like compilations as root anyway.
Anders
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