Timeline for Anonymous tarballs
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| Apr 21, 2016 at 9:24 | comment | added | Anthon |
@PSkocik That is interesting, I just checked man cpio and cpio --help and they both confirm what I commented before. Probably the source was updated, but the documentation wasn't (GNU cpio 2.11)
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| Apr 21, 2016 at 7:51 | comment | added | Petr Skocik |
It appears to work for -o too. I tried creating a simple archive with and without --owner root:root and then diffed their respective hexdumps. What changed were two two-byte sequence that little-endian-decoded to 0 and my $UID respectively.
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| Apr 21, 2016 at 7:44 | comment | added | Anthon |
IIRC --owner only works on extraction/pass-through. If I am wrong you can use cpio's -H option to directly write tar files.
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| Apr 21, 2016 at 7:38 | vote | accept | Petr Skocik | ||
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| Apr 21, 2016 at 7:38 | comment | added | Petr Skocik |
Thanks. It does the job, though only partly. Looks like cpio (which seems to always encode uids numerically) can anonymize its archives fully via the --owner switch.
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| Apr 21, 2016 at 7:22 | history | answered | Anthon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |