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0 pointslatchkey1y ago0 comments

If I have a file on machineA with uid10001 and I copy the file to machineB, I might want it to retain that uid, but it shouldn't matter to machineB that it doesn't map to a real user.

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MrDarcy1y ago· 3 in thread

You’ll see this observation all the time building containers.

danielrico1y ago

Don't if you only run them with root user.

kurisufag1y ago

or with ipa-esque authentication schemes and shared mounts

dimatura1y ago

And NFS!

rafram1y ago

Hopefully that user actually doesn’t exist on the second machine!

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