If you deal with scripts and other text files and move between platforms you probably discovered this "issue". Only the founding developers can explain why they chose what they did - googling about will show you a couple of different explanations - whatever the reasons, here are the differences and how to convert. The formats The Characters in use (referenced in OS info below) LF Usually referred to as LF  or Line feed Ascii code decimal 10 Hex: A or 0xA Octal: 12 or O12 Typical Escaped character in many shells and languages: \n CR Usually referred to as CR or Carriage Return Ascii code decimal 13 Hex D or 0xD Typical Escaped character in many shells and languages:  \r Unix, Linux, and Modern MacOS - The POSIX standard Each Line ends with a single character:  LF Most programming languages will understand/interpret this format properly. Simple Windows programs, like the built in Notepad will not show this properly. Windows (and DOS) Each...

If you are in a all-windows shop where everything is nice and neat, everybody has a proper domain membership and all authentication is SSO or Windows Integrated, then you probably do not have much of a problem with repeated account lockouts. On the other hand, if you are in a mixed environment, lots of :Linux, Mac, and unmanaged Wintendo, then you probably run into some users that manage to Lock themselves out frequently - typically for several days in a row after the account password had been changed. Reasons can be plenty fold - typically saved credentials somewhere, like a git client, sql-server client, email client, rdp-manager, smbfs-automount, or anything that tries a bunch of logins when you start it up, or keeps trying in the background. As a sysadmin, you don't have time to narrow it down for the end user - but they will be adamant it is not their fault, so you probably need to prove that "Yes it is" - so I use powershell to grab 4740 events from Domain Con...