[lug] User Account Migration

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 09:25:58AM +0200, rm at mamma.varadinet.de wrote:
>Doesn't this only work if the user IDs stay the same? 

No, tar by default will look up the user/group names on the system you're
extracting on, and only fall back to numeric uid/gid if the symbolic name
doesn't exist.  Unless you specify the --numeric-owner flag to the
extracting side, that is.

Sean
-- 
 Rocky: "Do you know what an A-Bomb is?"
 Bullwinkle: "Of course.  ``A Bomb'' is what some people call our show."
Sean Reifschneider, Inimitably Superfluous <jafo at tummy.com>
tummy.com - Linux Consulting since 1995. Qmail, KRUD, Firewalls, Python