surprisingly successful restore from backup

[Adam]

On 12 Jul 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:

>Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> writes:
>
>> On 10 Jul 2000, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>> 
>> >About 1 hour into the untar process, I started exploring the
>> >restored directories, to make sure that everything was going as
>> >planned.  However, it turned out that *every* directory was owned
>> >by root/root with identical permissions, despite the fact that I
>> >had specified the `--preserve' option to maintain ownership and
>> >permissions.
>> 
>> Do you happen to recall what the file access permissions were?
>
>-rw-rw-r-- root.root, I think.  (Why?)
>

if it was read for all, that would be unfortunate if restoring on a
multiuser system...!!