Can anyone explain why do i get these meessages everytime i try to untar a package? when i downloaded it said to be used with 2.4.X kernel and later.

(slackware 9.0 kernel 2.4.20)

code:

tar: Error exit delayed from previous errorstar: hsfmodem-6.03.00lnxt04051300full/etc/hsfmodem: Cannot change ownership to uid 500, gid 100: Operation not permitted
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

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thanks!

BTW does anyone know what is the hole in my "envelope" ?
(i noticed nobody else has it !) maybe people want to shoot me :-)

I searched a little in the forums and most of the solutions were similar,in order to change ownership :


chown -R username.groupname /path/to/files


but why the hell does it need to change ownership uid to 500 i think 0 is root, right? and root is the only user on the system. can anyone give a hand here please, i have tar packages that i need to install and i am stuck with this . thanks in advance

as matter of fact i remember now i couldnt compile any package on this machine.

To find out who uid 500 is try a cat /etc/passwd ??

this is my /etc/passwd :


root:x:0:0::/root:/bin/bash
bin:x:1:1:bin:/bin:
daemon:x:2:2:daemon:/sbin:
adm:x:3:4:adm:/var/log:
lp:x:4:7:lp:/var/spool/lpd:
sync:x:5:0:sync:/sbin:/bin/sync
shutdown:x:6:0:shutdown:/sbin:/sbin/shutdown
halt:x:7:0:halt:/sbin:/sbin/halt
mail:x:8:12:mail:/:
news:x:9:13:news:/usr/lib/news:
uucp:x:10:14:uucp:/var/spool/uucppublic:
operator:x:11:0perator:/root:/bin/bash
games:x:12:100:games:/usr/games:
ftp:x:14:50::/home/ftp:
smmsp:x:25:25:smmsp:/var/spool/clientmqueue:
mysql:x:27:27:MySQL:/var/lib/mysql:/bin/bash
rpc:x:32:32:RPC portmap user:/:/bin/false
gdm:x:42:42:GDM:/var/state/gdm:/bin/bash
pop:x:90:90:POP:/:
nobody:x:99:99:nobody:/:
sshd:x:33:33:sshd:/:


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what am i supposed change to correct it ? (just a guess)

It identifies a thread which you have posted in

I found an article that talks about my problem, but thats way too extensive and complicated for me( i copie it tough, for later maybe).
I remember about setuid and stuff but i dont really know what to do, can anyone help here, please?

if root is the only user(me), why do i have to change permissions at all ?

because you should not be running as root. Root is only used in certain rare instances (installing programs, configuration). Running as root will eventually allow you to make mistakes that mess up your box. perhaps that is what has happened now. Also some apps will not run for root for security reasons.

thanks, i think i get it, i am going to create an account and see what happens !

I know it has been a long time, but this thread appears at the top of the Google search so this may help someone.

When extracting with tar, the default for the root user is that tar attempts to retain the owner:group of the files originally stored in the tar.
When transferring tar files across systems, this may cause problem if the same user does not exist in the target machine.
Using the option --no-same-owner will force tar to extract the files and assign them root as owner.
The error does not appear when extracting with a normal user because in that case the default option is --no-same-owner.

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