Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:49:28 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.3.12-4: editing /etc/passwd causes ssh to fail Message-ID: <20021008224928.GA22681@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 -- Please do not send me personal email with cygwin questions. Use the resources at http://cygwin.com/ . -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/