Upgrading RH8 to RH9 - accounts?

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Alma J Wetzker:
> Kurt Wall <kwall at kurtwerks.com> Thu, 18 Sep 2003 21:52:53 -0400
> >
> >The files and directories will retain the UIDs and GIDs, so when the
> >proper password and group files are restored, the UIDs and GIDs will
> >map to the appropriate names.
> 
> <Clueless Mode>
> I thought that if I cp'd stuff to a CDR that the owner changed to who 
> cp'd the files.  I haven't tried gziping them and uzgziping but I 
> thought the owner was the one who did the restore.  (I vaguely remember 
> an option on *zip to preserve owner, but I never used it.)  I know with 
> tar or cpio ownership can be preserved.
> 
> Is the owner preserved now regardless of how the restore is done?
> </Clueless Mode>

It depends on what command you use and what options used with that
command. "cp -p" preserves ownership bits (among others). tar lets
you specify ownership (see --group and --owner), and has other options
for not restoring default ownership. cpio has similar functionality.

Kurt
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