> I've encountered an odd issue where I can't seem to edit anything in
> /etc.  I've executed 'mkpasswd -l > /etc/passwd' which worked fine.  I
> then attempted 'vim /etc/passwd', and vim seems to hang with the file
> name in quotes in the bottom left corner.

Looks like it's related to some issue reading stdin... I executed vim
in debug mode ('vim -D passwd') and got the following:

Vim: Error reading input, exiting...
Vim: Finished.

What's really odd is that this only occurs in /etc.

Hope this helps...

Chris

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