[ale] weird tgz shenanigans

[Jeff Hubbs]

Right - something similar happened to me when I set up a fax user
account for hylafax under Gentoo.

- Jeff

On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:48, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> The original files were packaged by some one with the same UID/GID as
> Michele. Remember, these are just some numbers that the running OS
> associates with what is in /etc/passwd. If the UID of the files doesn't
> match anyone in /etc/passwd, they won't show up with a user name in the
> UID field, just a number.
> 
> When the UID of the tarball is set to a valid UID on the machine, the
> entire tarball will unwrap with that UID unless flags are set that force
> it to otherwise. There a flags that can force this on the package making
> side as well.
> 
> On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:01, Jeff Rose wrote:
> > 	Now this doesn't make sense.  Someone please explain this.  michele has
> > a different gid and uid than root.  michele does not have the same
> > permissions as root.  If I set either/both the group or owner to
> > root/jeff, michele can't untar.  But of course root can.  If I set
> > owner/group to the user walter or jeff and extract, the files belong to
> > walter or jeff respectively. But when the owner/group is set to root and
> > untarred by root, the files are still owned by michele!  This is not the
> > case for all .tgz files I download.  Why do some files do this?  How can
> > I predict which files will do this?
> > 	Could it be that tar wants to set the permissions as close to what they
> > were when tarred as possible and it just so happens Michele's is the
> > closest id?  This seems very strange to me.
> > 	
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