scp / sftp / ssh from an OpenShift Pod gives an error "No user exists for uid $someUid"
Issue
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user would like to have an actor on an OCP pod which would initiate sftp or scp to an external system and retrieve a file but it fails
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ssh connection from a Pod fails with:
No user exists for uid $someUid
Environment
OCP 3.x
OCP 4.x
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