From: utzoo!decvax!cca!gwyn@Brl@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re:  chown
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3091
Posted: Fri Sep  3 20:40:31 1982
Received: Wed Sep  8 06:19:02 1982

From:     Doug Gwyn 
Date:     31 Aug 82 0:59:02-EDT (Tue)
It was my impression that "tar" would only chown files it was restoring to
the file system when run by the super-user.  A normal user should still
end up owning all the files restored.  (If "tar" doesn't work this way,
then maybe it needs to be changed to do so.)