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-rw-r--r--archival/tar.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/archival/tar.c b/archival/tar.c
index 45701c985..503db5f78 100644
--- a/archival/tar.c
+++ b/archival/tar.c
@@ -818,6 +818,10 @@ int tar_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
| ARCHIVE_PRESERVE_DATE
| ARCHIVE_EXTRACT_UNCONDITIONAL;
+ /* Apparently only root's tar preserves parms (see bug 3844) */
+ if (getuid() != 0)
+ tar_handle->ah_flags |= ARCHIVE_NOPRESERVE_PERM;
+
/* Prepend '-' to the first argument if required */
opt_complementary = "--:" // first arg is options
"tt:vv:" // count -t,-v