Answer by jtimberman for Untar with root: is it possible to set the uid?
You can run the chef execute resource as a particular user:execute "tar -xf /path/to/your/tarfile.tar" do user "someone"endExecute Resource Documentation
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Oddly enough, you can get closer to what you want using (GNU) cpio with your tar archive. GNU cpio supports tar format files, and provides the -R command line option to set the user and group of...
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Is it possible to tell tar to unpack the archive and set the uid/gid to a specific one, when you run tar as root (while using chef) ?Things I already know:I can use -o to extract as root, then chown...
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