Re: extracting tar with nonexistant users

1997-04-15 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > > I tried extracting a tar tape on a machine which did not > have the same users as the machine on which the tar tape was > created, it resulted in all the files created being owned by root. > > I would have expected that it should have created the files > w

Re: extracting tar with nonexistant users

1997-04-15 Thread Graeme Stewart
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I tried extracting a tar tape on a machine which did not > have the same users as the machine on which the tar tape was > created, it resulted in all the files created being owned by root. > > I would have expected that it should have created the files > with the