Thank you gentleman with the assistance, however there were no ^M control M's in the file even though the logs were complaining. I replaced the file for a 5th time with authconfig and all appears to be fine now except for the ldap issue I just posted. >> I suggest without the '\r' in the sed line. >> $perl -p -e 's/^M//g' < file_with_ctrl-M > file_without_ctrlM >> Regards, Epson Inkjet Printer FAQ: http://welcome.to/epson-inkjet