Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:58:12 -0900 From: Andy Firman <andy@firman.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unpacking as root gives weird ownership... Message-ID: <20041111155812.GA16154@akroteq.com> In-Reply-To: <20041111155254.GB4702@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20041111154455.GA15623@akroteq.com> <20041111155254.GB4702@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:52:55AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > > Why wouldn't it unpack with root, wheel ownership? > > Tarfiles extracted as root preserve the original ownership of the > files. You can use the -o flag to make all the extracted files owned > by root. Hmm. I am Linux guy getting into FreeBSD. This is new to me and this doesn't happen on any Linux flavor I have been on. Is there any particular reason for this default on FreeBSD?
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