Re: login with capital letters

H. Peter Anvin (hpa@terminus.storm.net)
Sun, 19 Nov 1995 02:42:07 -0800 (PST)

>
> This is the first time I tried to login with a capital word.
> This makes the login useless. Is this a bug?
> Why do the words change to capital letters?
> However, if you let it be for 60 seconds, it will say time out then back
> to normal.
>

This is support for some very old, broken terminals which only support
upper case. It is quicker to press Ctrl-D which terminates login
(which, of course, causes getty to run again immedately.)

It is worth noting that all-upper-case login names can never log in
through conventional means.

/hpa

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