Need help preserving permissions when using tar?

[John T. Kohl]

In article <2424 at sun.uucp> gnu at sun.uucp (John Gilmore) writes:
>> Does anyone know of a way to preserve file and directory permissions
>> and ownerships when using tar?
>
>The tar in 4.2bsd (and maybe other Berkeley releases) puts directory
>permissions into the tar file and creates the directories with those
>permissions when you read the tar file.

But it only sets ownerships if the user who extracts is root.


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