bheemesh v wrote:

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).

Hello Bheemesh, This mailing list is for the development of Python, not for developing *with* Python. There are other more appropriate mailing lists where you will hopefully get helpful answers: The Python tutor list http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor The comp.lang.python newsgroup The email gateway: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list A google groups interface: http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/topics?lnk=li&hl=en&pli=1 All the best, Michael Foord

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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