>> that would be about it.  and it doesn't even need to save the entire
>> line, just the gecos and shell info.  ideally, root would even be able
>> to change your username and chfn shouldn't care, since your uid would
>> still be the same.  :)
>
>Argghh, no. That would break hideously on multiple accounts with the same uid.

um...yeah.  okay, assuming that you *didn't* have duplicate uids, then
it would work fine.  so just ignore me...  :)

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