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> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "Irrationality is the square root of all evil" - Douglas Hofstadter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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