Re: Using the user nobody in my package

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr> wrote:

> If I'm not mistaking "tar" only stores UID and not user names, and
> that's also one of my concerns. 

At least for GNU tar, this is not true:

`--numeric-owner'
     This option will notify `tar' that it should use numeric user and
     group IDs when creating a `tar' file, rather than names.

I don't have any other tars available, but googel usually gives you a
couple of manpages.

Regards, Frank
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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)