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Find your user id and group id on Windows
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**Table of Contents**

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Docker for Windows
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.. todo::
   This section requires the actual information about how to get uid and gid.
   https://forums.docker.com/t/find-uid-and-gid-on-windows-for-mounted-directories/53320


Docker Toolbox
==============

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

.. seealso::

   * :ref:`howto_open_terminal_on_win`


Find your user id (``uid``)
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Type the following command to retrieve the correct ``uid``.

.. code-block:: bash

   host> id -u


Find your group id (``gid``)
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Type the following command to retrieve the correct ``gid``.

.. code-block:: bash

   host> id -g