[cobalt-developers] Changing File Owner (was: CMU and Tar to transfer sites from one Raq3 to another)

[Tian <tian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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I have noticed that the Raq 3 CMU (RaQ3-all-CMU Release 1.1-22)
does not seem to preserve file owners when you transfer sites from
one Raq 3 to another. For example, if you have FrontPage enabled
for a site, when you restore the web page files, all of the files will
have the owner "nobody" regardless of what the owner was of the
files on the machine that you backed up from.
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I was wondering if it would cause any problems by running
chown -R <site admin user> /home/sites/<domain name>/web
where <site admin user> would be the admin user for the site
and <domain name> would the domain name of the site. This
would be run on a web site with FrontPage extensions that would
have been created by the cmuImport command and would have
had the owner for all files changed to nobody. The reason I would
be changing the owner is so that people could upload and
overwrite their files using FTP. FrontPage extensions would be
removed from the site before doing this. If this would cause problems,
what else would need to be changed on the RAQ to make sure that
everything would work correctly?

Tian.