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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 2004 06:58:12 -0900
From:      Andy Firman <andy@firman.us>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: unpacking as root gives weird ownership...
Message-ID:  <20041111155812.GA16154@akroteq.com>
In-Reply-To: <20041111155254.GB4702@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <20041111154455.GA15623@akroteq.com> <20041111155254.GB4702@dan.emsphone.com>

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On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 09:52:55AM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote:
> > 
> > Why wouldn't it unpack with root, wheel ownership?
> 
> Tarfiles extracted as root preserve the original ownership of the
> files.  You can use the -o flag to make all the extracted files owned
> by root.

Hmm.  I am Linux guy getting into FreeBSD. This is new to me and this
doesn't happen on any Linux flavor I have been on.

Is there any particular reason for this default on FreeBSD?



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