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Re: 1.3.12-4: editing /etc/passwd causes ssh to fail
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 18:49:28 -0400
- Subject: Re: 1.3.12-4: editing /etc/passwd causes ssh to fail
- References: <BADF3C947A1BD54FBA75C70C241B0B9E762F82@ex02.idirect.net>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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