On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 07:26 -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jan 2012, Patryk Benderz wrote:
> > [cut]
> >> When I do the backup, I'll be user 500.
> >> When I do the restore, I'll be user 1000.
> >> Is there a problem with that?
> > It is a tar archive. Can't you just unpack it, change files ownership to
> > 1000.1000 and pack back again?
> Until just now, I didn't know that it was a tar archive.
> I was going by this:
> http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.2/backup-restore.html.en
> If it's just one tar file,
> I can change permissions on the tar file.
> A user program really can't do much with the owner informaton in a tar file.

False, it can do anything.  If you are extracting with the tar command
just use the --no-same-owner and/or --no-same-permissions options.  A
program unpacking a tar file [using something like the Python tarfile
module, or whatever] can do anything with the stream and the objects it
creates.


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