[MPlayer-users] file owner

[jim lawrence]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 18:04:40 +0100, Reimar Döffinger
<Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 11:54:23AM -0500, jim lawrence wrote:
> > when i tried to install mplayer by building as per the instructions in
> > the download, the file owner of MPlayer-1.0pre6a is changed to 1058
> > of which they belong to group 103.  why is this?  i can't remove
> 
> Do you mean the directory? Use the --no-same-owner for tar, though your
> system is serverly misconfigured if this isn't default for non-root
> users.
> There are also the --user and --group options.
> 
> > anything because THEY DON'T BELONG TO ME NOR ROOT
> 
> root can delete anything no matter who owns it (except on some especially secure systems. But I doubt you run one like that). What do you think root is
> there for?
> 
> Greetings,
> Reimar Döffinger
> 


-- i'm not running any special system,  default set up from install  


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