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Find your user id and group id on Windows

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Find your user id and group id on Windows

Docker for Windows

On Docker for Windows it is not necessary to change uid and gid in your .env file.

[!NOTE] Docker for Windows is internally using network shares (SMB) to mount Docker volumes. This does not require to syncronize file and directoriy permissions via uid and gid.

Docker Toolbox

On Docker Toolbox it is important that you open up a Docker environment prepared terminal window.

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Find your user id (uid)

Type the following command to retrieve the correct uid.

Terminal window
host> id -u

Find your group id (gid)

Type the following command to retrieve the correct gid.

Terminal window
host> id -g