Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: chown (was: at files and permissions) Message-ID: <5403@ficc.uu.net> Date: 1 Aug 89 13:36:29 GMT References: <20461@adm.BRL.MIL> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 20 In article <20461@adm.BRL.MIL>, rbj@dsys.ncsl.nist.gov (Root Boy Jim) writes: > ? From: Peter da Silva > ? When I type 'cd //oldsys/path; find . -print | cpio -pvd //newsys/path' > ? I want file ownerships to be maintained. > Great. Do it as root. Tar only does this as root. So, I tell everyone on the system who might want to do this that they're not to be trusted to copy directory trees around our network. I really appreciate the extra work this would put on the support group, too. Or do you mean I should make cpio setuid-root. :-> And, hey, replying in mail and posting an article is kind of weird. -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | "The sentence I am now Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | writing is the sentence Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | you are now reading"