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

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 07:22 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-01-27 at 06:39 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > You tell tar to NOT restore file ownership  - this allows you to
> > restore an archive from one systemâ
> >
> > Otherwise you will get a bunch of errors, or at least warnings, about
> > not being able to set file ownership.
>
> Fair enough, then we agree. Your earlier statement implies that if you
> don't tell tar not to restore ownership, then it will do so. What you
> meant was that it will *try* (and fail).

Which would be wrong.

If invoked as a non-root user, the default behaviour is *not* to attempt
to restore permissions. Since it obviously won't work.

If invoked as root, tar *will* restore permissions by default.

-- 
dwmw2

 Well, with the traditional UNIX security model at least.

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