Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 05:36:35 -0400 (EDT) From: "Woodchuck" <djv@bedford.net> To: groggy@iname.com (Steve Howe) Cc: acampble@panama.c-com.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Change Unix boxes Message-ID: <199810060936.FAA12464@castor.chuck> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.981004003248.442C-100000@abc.xyz.net> from Steve Howe at "Oct 4, 98 00:38:49 am"
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Steve Howe wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Oct 1998, Armando Campble P. wrote:
>
> if the box you are planning to move things to does
> not have the appropriate groups, then the groups
> can't be created when you extract the archive.
Untrue.
Groups are /numbers/ (gids) not names. /etc/group just translates those
numbers to names. The tar archive stores the gids
Try it:
# touch foo
# chown 1234.4321 foo
Or other uid/gids that don't exist on the system. then tar it. rm it.
then extract it. do a ls -l
Then make group 4321 in /etc/group, do the ls -l again.
Dave
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