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Clarified Linux user and group ID information
Clarified the information about Linux user and group IDs, as requested in User Story 1597198 (https://dev.azure.com/mseng/TechnicalContent/_workitems/edit/1597198).
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articles/aks/windows-node-limitations.md

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Kubernetes is historically Linux-focused. Many examples used in the upstream [Kubernetes.io][kubernetes] website are intended for use on Linux nodes. When you create deployments that use Windows Server containers, the following considerations at the OS-level apply:
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- **Identity** - Linux uses userID (UID) and groupID (GID), represented as integer types. User and group names are not canonical - they are just an alias in */etc/groups* or */etc/passwd* back to UID+GID.
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- **Identity** - Linux identifies a user by an integer user identifier (UID). A user also has an alphanumeric user name for logging on, which Linux translates to the user's UID. Similarly Linux identifies a user group by an integer group identifier (GID) and translates a group name to its corresponding GID.
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- Windows Server uses a larger binary security identifier (SID) which is stored in the Windows Security Access Manager (SAM) database. This database is not shared between the host and containers, or between containers.
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- **File permissions** - Windows Server uses an access control list based on SIDs, rather than a bitmask of permissions and UID+GID
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- **File paths** - convention on Windows Server is to use \ instead of /.
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[azure-outbound-traffic]: ../load-balancer/load-balancer-outbound-connections.md#defaultsnat
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[nodepool-limitations]: use-multiple-node-pools.md#limitations
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[preview-support]: support-policies.md#preview-features-or-feature-flags
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[windows-container-compat]: https://docs.microsoft.com/virtualization/windowscontainers/deploy-containers/version-compatibility#windows-server-2019-host-os-compatibility
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[windows-container-compat]: https://docs.microsoft.com/virtualization/windowscontainers/deploy-containers/version-compatibility#windows-server-2019-host-os-compatibility

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