Subject: Re: pwdb busy
To: Robert Black <r.black@ic.ac.uk>
From: Andrew Brown <codewarrior@daemon.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/26/1997 14:38:15
>> 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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