Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-priam.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!mit-athena!mit-priam!jtkohl From: jtkohl@mit-priam.UUCP (John T. Kohl) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Need help preserving permissions when using tar? Message-ID: <288@mit-priam.UUCP> Date: Wed, 17-Jul-85 11:53:56 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-pria.288 Posted: Wed Jul 17 11:53:56 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 18-Jul-85 20:21:07 EDT References: <495@men1.UUCP> <2424@sun.uucp> Reply-To: jtkohl@mit-athena.UUCP (John T. Kohl) Organization: MIT Project Athena Lines: 17 Summary: In article <2424@sun.uucp> gnu@sun.uucp (John Gilmore) writes: >> Does anyone know of a way to preserve file and directory permissions >> and ownerships when using tar? > >The tar in 4.2bsd (and maybe other Berkeley releases) puts directory >permissions into the tar file and creates the directories with those >permissions when you read the tar file. But it only sets ownerships if the user who extracts is root. -- The opinions expressed above, if any, are mine. John T. Kohl UUCP: ...!decvax!mit-athena!jtkohl ARPA: jtkohl@mit-athena.ARPA