[Samba] smbldap: odd ownership of un-tarred files

[Ryan Novosielski]

tar files hold onto the UID/GID that owned the files upon tarring. Samba
always untar's on my systems as UID 783, presumably because someone (but
WHO?) who puts together the Samba packages is UID 783 on the system on
which the tar's are built.

Unless you are answering a more complicated question that I can't seem to
grasp at the moment, in which case, forgive me.

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On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Bill Gurley wrote:

> I've just been setting up a new server with RHEL 3, samba 3 with LDAP
> authentication and using the smbldap-tools ver. 0.8.4.  I've finally got
> things working, but just noticed something odd.
>
> I have so far only created myself as a user, with uid=1000 and gid=513.
>
> As root, I obtained the latest gzip file for squirrelmail and untar'd
> it.  The odd thing is that the directory created by un-taring this file
> is owned as follows:
>
> drwxr-sr-x   16 gurley   1000   4096 Oct  1  2003 squirrelmail-1.4.2
>
> I tried unzipping other random gz files and find that they acquire
> random ownerships above 1000, instead of the expected root.root!
>
> What's going on?  Have I messed something up?
>
>
> -Bill-
>
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