1.3.12-4: editing /etc/passwd causes ssh to fail

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Tue Oct 8 16:39:00 GMT 2002


On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 06:38:09PM -0400, Harig, Mark A. wrote:
>I have been editing the /etc/passwd file with Cygwin's vim and the
>directory tree is mounted in binary mode, but I will check for errant
>^Ms.  Thank you for the suggestion.

/etc/passwd and /etc/group reading are supposed to be insensitive to
binmode/textmode issues.  This really shouldn't be a problem.

cgf
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