Re: tar does not use --same-owner for SYSTEM user

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Kevin Till on 8/1/2006 6:58 PM: > Hi, > > I'm running GNU tar 1.5.1 on cygwin version 2.510.2.2 (Window XP). Really? The current version of cygwin is 1.5.21, not 2.510.2.2 (which is the version of setup.exe). And the current version of

tar does not use --same-owner for SYSTEM user

Hi, I'm running GNU tar 1.5.1 on cygwin version 2.510.2.2 (Window XP). Running tar to restore files, owner information is not preserved. That's: all restored files are owned by SYSTEM. I suspect that tar is not recognizing SYSTEM user on cygwin/windowXP as superuser. Does anyone have the same