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From: merritt@iris613.gsfc.nasa.gov (John H Merritt)
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Subject: Re: restore tar archives with different uid?
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Date: 22 Aug 90 17:15:31 GMT
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In article <1674@quando.quantum.de> omerzu@quando.quantum.de (Thomas Omerzu) writes:
>that depends on the version of 'tar' you're using.
>A BSD-based tar does do that by default, whereas an ATT-tar
>has got the 'o'-option.
>
>TFM reads:
>          o       Causes extracted files to take on the user and group
>                  identifier of the user running the program rather
>                  than those on the tape.
>
And in our IRIX (SGI's Unix):

		o		Do not chown (or chgrp) files.

Keep the owner and group that's on the tape, or don't change the
extracted files to the owner and group that's on the tape?  You have
to run this once to determine what it really does.

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