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- From: knarf@nasim.sta.sub.org (Frank Bartels)
- Subject: Re: Deleting owned files...
- Date: Wed, 11 May 1994 19:54:51 +0200 (MET DST)
- In-Reply-To: <9405110850.AA13633@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> from "Andreas Schwab" at May 11, 94 10:50:19 am
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- Andreas Schwab wrote:
- >
- > Michael Smith <miff@apanix.apana.org.au> writes:
-
- > |> I suspect this is also the reason why tar 1.11.2 (I rebuilt this with the
- > |> pl44 mintlibs if anyone is interested) can't set ownership/permissions
- > |> on files it extracts sometimes (that's annoying!).
- >
- > No, this has nothing to do with it. Only the superuser can change the
- > ownership of a file, and you can only change the mode if you own the
- > file (or you are effectively root). I never had problems extracting a
- > tarfile if tar is running as root. Unter SysV, everyone can give away
- > files, but that is too risky, and GNU tar will never do that as a
- > non-privileged process.
-
- I've seen this, too:
-
- lancelot# uname -a
- MiNT lancelot 1.10 4.4 atari
- [Note: Running MiNT 1.10 with nox' and Kay's patches, MinixFS 0.60 PL9]
- lancelot# whoami
- root
- lancelot# id
- uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel)
- lancelot# tar --version
- GNU tar version 1.11.2
- lancelot# tar tzvf uucp-1.03.tar.gz
- drwxrwxr-x 269/15 0 Apr 7 05:31 1992 uucp-1.03/
- -r--r--r-- 269/15 17976 Apr 7 05:05 1992 uucp-1.03/COPYING
- [...]
- [Note: The file COPYING is read-only]
- lancelot# tar xzvf uucp-1.03.tar.gz uucp-1.03/COPYING
- uucp-1.03/COPYING
- tar: Could not create file uucp-1.03/COPYING : path not found.
- lancelot# mkdir uucp-1.03
- lancelot# tar xzvf uucp-1.03.tar.gz uucp-1.03/COPYING
- uucp-1.03/COPYING
- tar: couldn't change access and modification times of uucp-1.03/COPYING:
- access denied.
- lancelot# ll !$
- -r--r--r-- 1 269 15 17976 May 11 19:46 uucp-1.03/COPYING
- lancelot# tar xzvf uucp-1.03.tar.gz uucp-1.03/COPYING
- uucp-1.03/COPYING
- tar: Could not create file uucp-1.03/COPYING : access denied.
- lancelot# ll !$
- -r--r--r-- 1 269 15 17976 May 11 19:46 uucp-1.03/COPYING
-
- nasim% uname -a
- SunOS nasim 4.1.1 3 sun3
- [Note: SunOS 4.1.1 is a BSD-4.3 type UNIX OS]
- nasim% whoami
- knarf
- nasim% tar --version
- GNU tar version 1.11.2
- nasim% # No mkdir needed
- nasim% tar xzvf /pub/atari/Uucp/uucp-1.03.tar.gz uucp-1.03/COPYING
- uucp-1.03/COPYING
- nasim% ll uucp-1.03/COPYING
- -r--r--r-- 1 knarf admin 17976 Apr 7 1992 uucp-1.03/COPYING
-
- No further comment needed...
-
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