Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 07:27:06 -0900 From: Andy Firman <andy@firman.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unpacking as root gives weird ownership... Message-ID: <20041111162706.GB16306@akroteq.com> In-Reply-To: <20041111161137.GC4702@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20041111154455.GA15623@akroteq.com> <20041111155254.GB4702@dan.emsphone.com> <20041111155812.GA16154@akroteq.com> <20041111161137.GC4702@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 10:11:37AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Nov 11), Andy Firman said: > > 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. > > It's been standard procedure for tar as far back as I can remember, on > all OSes. You are right. I spoke too quickly as I am just starting to work as root more and more. Normally everything is done with sudo. When I use the -o switch it still won't unpack as root:wheel. Doesn't really matter, just being curious. Thanks, Andy
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