[CLUE-Talk] user accounts

Jeremiah Stanley miah at miah.org
Mon Nov 20 09:45:46 MST 2000


> There is a preserve permissions switch for GNU tar:
>  -p, --same-permission, --preserve-permissions 
> 
> If you don't want to bother with using the "chown -R" command on the
> moved directories, you'll also want the users to have the same uid/gid
> as on the old machine.

That helps, but I've conceeded that it will be a pain anyway! I was really
hoping for a neat GPL'd utility (I guess I need to write one now).

JStanley
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