> So I downloaded the tar file, wget.... running as root (su -). Looking at > the file permissions owner and group are root but when I untar the file > the > new directory and all of the files have the UID and GID set to 1000, which > was another user and not the one that I logged in with..... Right, that's the uid and gid of whoever tar'd the files up, which clearly seems to be the same, and since you don't have a user with that uid and gid, it just uses the numerical value that it came with. > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Brian Mathis > <brian.mathis at gmail.com>wrote: > >> 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >