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 GwynDate: 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.)