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tar does not use --same-owner for SYSTEM user
- From: Kevin Till <kevin dot till at zmanda dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2006 17:58:24 -0700
- Subject: tar does not use --same-owner for SYSTEM user
Hi,
I'm running GNU tar 1.5.1 on cygwin version 2.510.2.2 (Window XP).
Running tar to restore files, owner information is not preserved. That's: all restored
files are owned by SYSTEM.
I suspect that tar is not recognizing SYSTEM user on cygwin/windowXP as superuser. Does
anyone have the same experience or a workaround for it?
info tar:
`--same-owner'
Create extracted files with the same ownership they have in the
archive.
This is the default behavior for the superuser, so this option is
meaningful only for non-root users,
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Thank you!
Kevin Till
Amanda documentation: http://wiki.zmanda.com
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