On Thursday 30 January 2003 03:11 pm, David.Lee AT arvatousa DOT com wrote:
> I  login as 'amanda' to run 'amdump' and 'amrestore'.
> The utility is GNUTAR.
> The command 'amrestore -p ...| tar xvf -'  works, but the owner of 
> restored files were changed
> to 'amanda'.
> How to prevent to change 'owner'?
>
> Thanks!
>
> David

Run as root should fix that, or at least, on my system, when you untar things 
as root, it doesn't change their ownership to root.