Re: [Evolution] Where does evolution store its files?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:15 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-01-26 at 13:45 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > Until just now, I didn't know that it was a tar archive.
> > > I was going by this:
> > > http://library.gnome.org/users/evolution/3.2/backup-restore.html.en
> > > If it's just one tar file,
> > > I can change permissions on the tar file.
> > > A user program really can't do much with the owner informaton in a tar file.
> > Quite.  When the tar file is unpacked the ownership of the files will be
> > set to the user who unpacked it - no other course of action is possible
> > since only the root user can set the ownership of a file to something
> > else (and I really hope you aren't running a mail client as root!)
>
> This isn't true;  tar can request to not set the ownership, it can just
> extract the files and leave permissions and ownership alone.

Wrong. A non-root process can *only* create files owned by the user
running it, and 'tar' is of course not setuid.

poc