Re: login with capital letters
Hendrik Visage (Hendrik.Visage@VECTOR.CO.ZA)
Mon, 20 Nov 1995 08:27:20 +0200
> >
> > 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.
>
The exception:
use \ to escape to Uppercase as in:
You type:
USERNAME USERNAME
Passwd \Passwd
When in uppercase mode,
and you have: You type:
username username (It'll display USERNAME)
Passwd \Passwd
This works BTW on Solaris, and it DID work a long time ago on Linux when I did
test it....
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