23 Sep
2003
23 Sep
'03
12:25 a.m.
On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 08:44, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On old versions of unix, if the username and password
you typed was all
upper-case, it assumed you were using an uppercase-only teletype and
set things accordingly. I doubt if Lunix includes that code :-)
it tries hard, but i expect you could only log in if your password was
all upper case:
root@pc004:/u5/james# agetty 9600 `tty`
Welcome to Linux 2.4.22 (/dev/pts/1)
pc004 login: JAMES
PASSWORD:
LOGIN INCORRECT
PC004 LOGIN:
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James F. Carter http://www.jfc.org.uk/