Same username in another container can have different user id

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Last Updated: 2024-11-23

I had www-data users in wordpress container and wordpress_cli container. Yet they had different user ids! (33 vs. 82)

Therefore file permissions did not work as I naively expected.

This is a general gotcha with user names being the same in two containers (or in two machines generally).