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Igor Pechtchanski wrote:

> Umm, sorry, Brian, but this is not true.  The username in /etc/passwd
> doesn't matter at all, and neither does the UID -- it's the SID field
> that's important.

That's good to know.  Sorry for the misinformation.

Brian

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