Jordan Gordeev wrote: > Solaris 10 has this exact behaviour - running 'tar' as root implies > '-p'. AFAIK 'tar' is not standardized, so packages that rely on tar > being GNU tar or some such are themselves broken.
Yeah, I already came into same conclusion as well. But ... Newer GNU tar behaves the same way, but have a command line switch to turn this behavior off (--no-same-permissions), our tar doesn't seem to have a way. -- Hasso Tepper