Hello, I am a newbie to this mailing list, i have seen in some mail discussions about a tar archive creation by forcibly setting the UID/GID to a specific user (say root).
Te code mentioned goes like this: tar = tarfile.open("foo.tar.gz", "w:gz") for filename in filenames: tarinfo = tar.gettarinfo(filename) if tarinfo.isreg(): fobj = open(filename) else: fobj = None tarinfo.uid = 0 tarinfo.gid = 0 tar.addfile(tarinfo, fobj) tar.close() But this is not really working for me as when i am trying to un-tar or un-compress contents to a new directory and contents still have diff GID & UID in the long listing of directory. Can somebody suggest an alternative or a working case if already changes are done here. Thanks in advance. Best regards, Bheemesh
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