Re: Numerical owners

Wesley Leggette wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 00:19 +0200, Wiebe Cazemier wrote:
> 
>>On 03/26/06 22:22, Denis Corbin wrote:
> 
> 
> If this option was ever implemented, it could just store the names *in
> addition to* the uids/gids. And restoring to the names instead of the
> numbers would have to be /explicitly/ asked for.

I think it would be a waste of space in archive, and of energy in 
development, to store in any cases both UID/GID and their naming 
counterparts, for the rare cases where one will ever use it.

Moreover, if dar restores the /etc/password file, what would become of 
the user to UID mapping and of the group to GID mapping ? Would dar have 
to check at each file restoration that this is not the /etc/password 
file ? Would it have to know other systems as well and detect files that 
could lead the uid/gid mapping to change ?

Last, if one wants to change the UID or GID associated to a given user 
and name, it is wise to do it before of after restoration not at the 
same time. This is easy to do : either just edit the /etc/password 
/etc/group files and/or call 'find / -uid <old-uid> -exec chown 
<new-uid>{} \;'

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