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Re: [Sheflug] pax / tar

Quoting Chris J <cej [at] nightwolf.org.uk>:


> I suspect, but a google to confirm this is proving tricky, that
> numeric-owner
> stores the numeric value of the owner (i.e., the UID) in the archive rather
> than the actual name of the user. In passwd terms, it stores field 3 rather
> than field 1 :) That's my theory anyway.
> 
Would that explain the following ..  sorry if its a bit wordy.


I 'm trying to install a version of pebble Linux on a PC, 
http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble

Part of the installation process involves unpacking a tarball to a filesystem, 
then chrooting and running lilo to make it bootable, and setting a root 
password.

Somewhere between v29 and v36 somethings changed in it and when I chroot  and 
run passwd I get an error message which I can't quote now because I didn't 
write it down, but went a bit like "unable to open passwd AUTH"

Then when the thing boots it says it can't mount any disks as only root can do 
that, and no daemons start  


An ls -al of the filesystem shows all files to be owned by 64543 and group 
64543 rather than names as the owner and groups of files. 

Previous versions used to say things like owner root, group wheel

Instead of tar I did a 

pax -rf /path/to/pebble.tar

and now everything is owned by root group root,I can set a passwd.  I'm trying 
to get some info on

1.  Whats the difference between what I've dome and how it should look
2.  Why didn't it work anyhow.

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