The reason I ask is that I would like to change my password to something more memorable, since it never makes into my keychain. And I can't touch my profile due to some permissions issues. 

But more importantly, the installed version is out of date: a lot of vulnerabilities have been addressed over the past few months, and it would be good to incorporate those changes. 
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