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Re: [Bug-tar] Permission errors
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: [Bug-tar] Permission errors |
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Sat, 05 Jun 2004 08:23:06 -0700 |
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"Dave Largent" <address@hidden> writes:
> Is it possible that tar is being run as a different user?
Possible, but not likely, at least not with GNU tar. It plays setuid
games only in the remote-access code.
You can look in the source code for 'setuid' and/or 'seteuid' and see.
You should look at the source code that Apple gives you.