Enhancement for gnu tar/NFS

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From: Michael I Bushnell
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 03:32

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   From: neal@ctd.comsat.com (Neal Becker)
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   If you are stuck with NFS/root access problems ( like on HPUX
   machines ) you may find this patch useful.  This patch introduces the
   same kind of kludge as the chdir option (-C) to do seteuid.  For some
   reason I've forgotten, I called this (-E).  I use this to read user's
   files using NFS.  Use it like this:

   tar .... -E user1 ~user1 -Euser2 ~user2 ...

   Thus, we backup user1's files *as* user1, ...etc.  Neat, huh?

I would advise people *not* to do this.  It is much better to either
fix broken NFS implementations, or to run tar on the NFS server.  The
latter option will also make your backups run MUCH faster.  The backup
stripts distributed with GNU tar do this for you.

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From: mib@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Michael I Bushnell)
Subject: Enhancement for gnu tar/NFS
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