[ale] Same UID and GID through the cloud

[Beddingfield, Allen]

If you are doing NFS shares, the ownership is based on uid/gid.
Allen B.

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Allen Beddingfield
Systems Engineer
The University of Alabama
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Subject: [ale] Same UID and GID through the cloud

Dumb question here:

What are the advantages of keeping UID and GID the same on every server?

Or does it even matter anymore, as long as the usernames and group names are the same.