Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 03/12/13 02:03, Glauber Costa wrote:
> > With that, it is extremely useful when unpacking tar archives, to be
> > able to add that offset to the end result. Specifying a user won't help,
> > since the tar archive can have many
>
> Sorry, I'm not following this part. Why can't you extract the
> tar image in a context where the mapping is already in place?
> If user "foo" is host user ID 4000, for example, and you're running
> in an environment where uid 0 maps to 10000, then presumably
> user "foo" is namespace user 14000, which is what you want, no?
Also, TAR should map by name rather then by uid in the first attempt.
Jörg
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