Tarfile and usernames

[Michael Ross]

On Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:57:31 +0100, Nicholas Cole  
<nicholas.cole at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear List,
>
> I'm hoping to use the tarfile module in the standard library to move  
> some files between computers.
> I can't see documented anywhere what this library does with userids and  
> groupids.  I can't guarantee that the computers involved will have the  
> >same users and groups, and would like the archives to be extracted so  
> that the files are all owned by the extracting user.
> Essentially, I do *not* with to preserve the owner and groups specified  
> in the archives.

As long as you don't extract as root, doesn't extracting set the  
extracting user's uid/gid anyway?

Regards,

Michael

>
> What is the right way to achieve this?
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Nicholas
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