diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index e4e2ef677..99dcdebed 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2002-02-14  Jochen Eisinger <jochen.eisinger@gmx.net>
+
+	* sanei/sanei_auth.h: remove strange line-ending handling code
+
 2002-02-14  Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>
 
 	* configure configure.in include/sane/config.h.in lib/Makefile.in
diff --git a/sanei/sanei_auth.c b/sanei/sanei_auth.c
index 240b02045..a2afee779 100644
--- a/sanei/sanei_auth.c
+++ b/sanei/sanei_auth.c
@@ -189,12 +189,6 @@ sanei_authorize (const char *resource,
   while (sanei_config_read (line, 1024, passwd_file))
     {
 
-      if ((strlen (line) > 0) && (line[strlen (line) - 1] == '\n'))
-	line[strlen (line) - 1] = '\n';
-
-      if ((strlen (line) > 0) && (line[strlen (line) - 1] == '\r'))
-	line[strlen (line) - 1] = '\r';
-
       if (strchr (line, ':') != NULL)
 	{
 	  if (strchr (strchr (line, ':') + 1, ':') != NULL)