New: Player group and owner set to 501 when installing using .bin

https://bugs.helixcommunity.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4745

           Summary: Player group and owner set to 501 when
installing using 
                    .bin                                    

           Project: player                                  

           Version: 10.0.6.776                              

          Hardware: PC                                      

  Operating System: Linux                                   

            Status: NEW                                     

          Severity: TRIAGE                                  

          Priority: TRIAGE                                  

           Tracker: Bugs                                    

        AssignedTo: TRIAGE                                  

        ReportedBy: dshirzad                                

         QAContact: mlapora                                 

                CC:
,player-listuser-2e4ac0e8-b89b-11d8-92ef-00d0b7075c1c,ra
                    bbit                                    

bug:  When installing either the Helix or RealPlayer using
the .bin installer, it attempts to set
the owner and group to 501:501.  If the user is currently
logged in as root, the installation will
complete without errors, but the player directory will be
owned by 501:501.  If the user is not
logged in as root, the installer gives many errors about
being unable to change ownership to 501:501
before installing as the current user.

expected:  The player should installed as owned by the
current user.

repro:  
1) Download the Linux realplayer or the helixplayer .bin
installer from either http://www.real.com
or http://player.helix
community.org.
2) Make the installer executible (chmod +x)
3) Run the installer
4) Verify that if not currently logged in as root the
installer gave many errors regarding changing
ownership, or if logged in as root that the installed player
directory is owned by user 501:501 -
not root.

More information from rggammon:

You can pass tar a flag telling it not to chown:

       -o, --no-same-owner
              do not attempt to restore ownership when
extracting; -o exhibits
              this behavior when extracting an archive

... and we do (except on OpenBSD for reasons unknown):

https:/
/helixcommunity.org/viewcvs/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/installer/common
/platform/unix/stage1.cpp?annotate=1.2

247           #if defined(_OPENBSD)
248               const char* szTarOpts = "xf";
249           #else
250               const char* szTarOpts = "xof";
251           #endif

(note the o in xof)

I'd expect everything to thus be owned by root. 

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