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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 does
by latchkey 1y ago
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.
- MrDarcy 1y agoYou’ll see this observation all the time building containers.
- danielrico 1y agoDon't if you only run them with root user.
- kurisufag 1y agoor with ipa-esque authentication schemes and shared mounts
- dimatura 1y agoAnd NFS!
- rafram 1y agoHopefully that user actually doesn’t exist on the second machine!