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Date:      Mon, 24 Sep 2001 09:29:27 +1200
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
To:        cyu0635@home.com
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: File permission
Message-ID:  <20010924092927.A1804@itouchnz.itouch>
In-Reply-To: <3BAE4E2A.526A5E44@home.com>; from cyu0635@home.com on Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 05:03:39PM -0400
References:  <3BAE4E2A.526A5E44@home.com>

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On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 05:03:39PM -0400, cyu0635@home.com wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I download tarball ssh-3.0.1.tar.gz
> and stored it in /usr/local/src
> I grant it permission chown root:root /usr/local/src/*
> 
> but after I exact it 'ssh-3.0.1.tar.gz -----> directory ssh-3.0.1', the
> permission changed
> 
> drwxr-xr-x     8     11171    users    4096    Jun 7 14:26    ssh-3.0.1
> 
> Why?

The tarball stores user information and permissions for files/directories
within the archive. If you extract it as root, they'll be restored to
the uid/gid and permissions as when they were archived.
-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>
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                        "Irrationality is the square root of all evil"
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