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diff --git a/with-authinfo-kludge.1 b/with-authinfo-kludge.1
index 138c5f8..9a6f940 100644
--- a/with-authinfo-kludge.1
+++ b/with-authinfo-kludge.1
@@ -429,11 +429,6 @@ The user's home directory is determined, as follows.
 If the environment variable
 .B HOME
 is set, then its value is used.
-Otherwise, the current effective uid is looked up
-in the password database
-(using
-.BR getpwuid (3));
-and the home directory taken from the record.
 Let
 .I home
 be the home directory so determined, if any.
@@ -507,24 +502,7 @@ denote its value;
 then
 .IB run /with-authinfo-kludge
 is used as the runtime directory.
-.hP 3.
-The user's name is determined, as follows.
-If the environment variable
-.B USER
-is set, then its value is used.
-Otherwise, if, the environment variable
-.B LOGNAME
-is set, then its value is used.
-Otherwise, the current effective uid is looked up
-in the password database
-(using
-.BR getpwuid (3));
-and the name taken from the record.
-Let
-.I user
-be the user name so determined, if any.
-.hP 4
-If no user name could be determined, then skip this step.
+.hP 3
 If the environment variable
 .B TMPDIR
 is set, then let
@@ -534,28 +512,31 @@ otherwise, let
 .I tmp
 be
 .BR /tmp .
+Let
+.I uid
+be the current effective uid, in decimal,
+without leading zeroes
+(if the superuser is foolish enough to run this program then
+.I uid
+is
+.BR 0 ).
 If
-.IB tmp/ with-authinfo-kludge- user
+.IB tmp/ with-authinfo-kludge- uid
 exists,
 is a directory (and not a symbolic link),
 is owned by the current effective uid,
 and has no permissions for group or others;
 or if it does not exist but can be created with the above properties;
 then it is used as the runtime directory.
-.hP 5.
+.hP 4.
 The user's home directory is determined, as follows.
 If the environment variable
 .B HOME
 is set, then its value is used.
-Otherwise, the current effective uid is looked up
-in the password database
-(using
-.BR getpwuid (3));
-and the home directory taken from the record.
 Let
 .I home
 be the home directory so determined, if any.
-.hP 6.
+.hP 5.
 A `cache home' directory is determined, as follows.
 If the environment variable
 .B XDG_CACHE_HOME
@@ -569,7 +550,7 @@ Let
 denote the cache home directory so determined.
 If the cache home directory does not exist,
 then it is created with mode 0777 (as modified by the umask).
-.hP 7.
+.hP 6.
 Let
 .I hostname
 be the local machine's hostname,
@@ -637,10 +618,6 @@ to share the same proxy machinery.
 This is somewhat wasteful.
 Fixing this would necessitate some other way of
 orchestrating the setup and teardown of runtime directories.
-.PP
-Maybe there ought to be a way to set
-a separate runtime directory for each server.
-But, really, I had to draw a line somewhere.
 .
 .\"--------------------------------------------------------------------------
 .SH SEE ALSO