Re: login with capital letters
Derek Wildstar (dwild@andromeda.starforce.com)
Sun, 19 Nov 1995 23:45:15 -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.
> >
>
> 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....
>
I just tried it several different ways with kernel version 1.2.13 and
shadow 3.3.2, I couldn't get logged in at all. Some of the ways I
tried:
username Pas$w0rd (normal)
USERNAME \Pas$w0rd
USERNAME \PAS$W0RD
USERNAME \PAS\$W0RD
USERNAME Pas$w0rd
not that I really _need_ this feature, but as long as we're discussing
it, just thought I'd throw in my $.02...
-DW