From: Tom Bishop <bishoptf at gmail.com> >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..... Which is the normal behavior... If you tar /etc, you want to preserve file ownership... If you untar etc.tar and all files would become owned by root, it would break many things... If you need, look at -o or --owner tar options (man tar will help)... JD