Resolving File Permissions ERROR when moving files from one user to another

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Published on 2011-11-12T07:39:22Z Indexed on 2011/11/12 9:59 UTC
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I am creating a tarball from a bunch of files in one machine under my $USER - I have set execute permissions to all the files, but when I copy it over to another user in a different machine, there is an 'access permission denied error' when that user tries to access some of the files. I do not have root/sudo privileges.

How would I resolve that? What are the rules to create universally distributable tarballs?

Thanks.

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