Re: [Bug-tar] bug with tar and preserving UID and GID over NFS

[Sergey Poznyakoff]

ajmcello <address@hidden> ha escrit:

>    Hi. I thought I would forward this to the tar group. Is it possible to
>    have tar fallback to UID and GID 0 or the owner and group of the person
>    running tar in the event that it cannot change it, particularly over
>    NFS?

Currently it is not possible to fallback to another uid/gid if tar
was unable to set them. However, it is possible to override the
uid/gid values stored in the archive. For example, to extract all files
from `a.tar' as owned by user with uid=100 and gid=1000, run:

  tar -x -f a.tar --pax-option uid=100,gid=1000

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Sergey