On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Tom Bishop <bishoptf at gmail.com> wrote: > Hoping someone can help me fix something that I apparently messed up, i have > the issue that when I untar a file as root the uid and gid that get set are > not roots'. I had change a user uid and gid to 1000 via usermo -u etc.... > but somehow it appears to have effected the root user. When I touch files > as root the correct uid and gid are root, however when untaring an archive > the directory and files are uid and gid =1000. Hope someone can point me in > the right direction....oh yea, running centos 5.4, and when I run the > command id = uid=0, gid=0, etc,,,,all appear to be right for root....Thanks > in advance. When you untar as root, the UID/GID is always set to that of the user who created the tar file. Only if you untar as a normal user does it change the ownership to the user who untarred it.