Ok, it is just a crappy limitation of Solaris tar.. lesson learned:
Always go GNU.
This has been a public service announcement. :)
Josef
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On Fri, 23 Jul 1999, Josef Wesley Wells wrote:
> Ok kiddies, riddle me this.
>
> If you get a tar file, and the person who created it did not give you
> permissions on the files inside the tar.. ie:
>
>
> siglinux.tar
> -rw------- someone/somegroup 1098 blah blah blah
>
> How can you untar those files without somehow becoming "someone". I own
> the tar file itself, but the contents.. ack I dunno. I get:
>
> Read access to blah was denied
>
> Any ideas?
> JOsef
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> one's input into error messages. v. To engage in an activity similar to
> banging one's head into a wall, but with less opportunity for reward.
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