Maven assembly set username for tar

Question

I'm using Maven with the Assembly plugin and would like to set the user and group for a tar-file.

I can set access rights to every directory, but without setting the user this is quite useless.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The tar is created with the permission of the user running it. If you want this to be a particular user/group you can run maven as that user/group.

Maven may not allow you to use tar as a different user, but if you can do it in ant you can use http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-antrun-plugin/ to do anything ant can do.

http://maven.apache.org/plugins/maven-antrun-plugin/usage.html