Numbers Ownership after tarring

[Mark Sargent]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 02:41, Paul Howarth wrote:
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>>chown is the specialised tool for changing ownership of files and tar is
>>the specialised tool for handling archives. It's good that they're
>>separate. If you want a facility to do both at the same time, how about
>>writing a script that uses tar to extract the files and then uses chown
>>to change the ownership of the files?
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>GNUtar has an --owner=USER option if you want to set the ownership as
>the archive is created, and when files are extracted by root it should
>default to setting the file ownership to match the user named in the
>source if a matching user name exists on the destination system. Perhaps
>the users didn't exist at the time of extraction so the numeric uids
>were used instead.
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Hi All,

yes, yes, that's what I thought it should do. Funny, when extracting as 
root, it gave those weird numbers as ownership. Where as, I was sure it 
should give the ownership as root, as I was extracting as root. Am I 
correct in my understanding of how it should work.? Cheers.

Mark Sargent.