[NBLUG/talk] Moving permissions

[Todd Cary]

Mark -

What happens if the "owners" are not on the new machine?  I would like 
to avoid the tedious task of creating users and groups on the new box.

Todd

Mark Street wrote:

>A move or a copy?  Same computer?  The question is vague.  Are you taking 
>"user and group ownership" into account as well as file permissions or just 
>concerned with file permissions?
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>I would say tar would do the trick with a -p and --same-owner.  man tar
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>On Sunday 18 January 2004 07:34, Todd Cary wrote:
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>>I have a "home" directory on one computer and I want to move it to
>>another.  Is it possible to move the permissions with it?
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