Re: [CentOS] Tar of files

I think on linux (most systems I ran into actually), UIDs and GIDs are numerical with just a "human friendly" translation (from passwd/group.   If you extract a tar file, for example, and the  owner/group (numerically) does not exist on the target system, you get to see the  'old' uid/gid from the src system.

On 3/3/21 8:06 AM, Bernstein, Noam CIV USN NRL (6393) Washington DC (USA) via CentOS wrote:

Does anyone understand why there exists a "--numeric-owner" flag? I replied off-list with the same information as others posted here, but the existence and docs for that flag at least imply that the default is usernames, not UIDs.

					Noam

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