Bugzilla – Bug 17
file owner and group settings
Last modified: 2000-11-14 19:33:56 MST
After installation of the solaris2.7 binaries, i noticed that all files were not owned by root. But owned by some unidentified uid = 8036 and assigned to group "staff" (not established at this site). Why not owner=root and group=system or bin ? This is only in directory where tar extraction was done. Install_uid gid and sudoers_uid gid was left to default=0 (which should be root, correct?) Please advise on this. Brodrick Tyndle Dept. of Commerce brodpower@yahoo.com
Thus are the perils of untarring things as root. Depending on the version of tar you have it will create the files with the original ownership of the files (ie: before they were added to the archive), not the current user/group. This is generally only a problem when you run tar as root, although it may also happen on systems that allow files to be given away. If you do a 'make install' from the extraction directory the files will get installled with the correct permissions.