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and subject line Close #680302 - login: arrow keys at tty* login screen move
cursor instead of output ^[[A
has caused the Debian Bug report #680302,
regarding base: strange behaviour in getty/login on the ttys. user is able to
move the cursor all over the screen.
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Package: base
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
The getty login screens on wheezy allow the user to move the cursor at the
beginning of the "login:" prompt line, thus overwriting the "login:" string.
It is also possible to move the cursor down and while at the bottom pressing
the "Enter" key will allow the screen to scroll down further.
After that the only way to bring the prompt back is to press Ctrl+C.
The normal behaviour should be the tty showing a ^[[D each time the user press
an arrow key. This correct behaviour happens only after a failed login, but
after
some minutes the tty get back to the "weird-mode".
It is not possible to login if the cursor has been moved down the screen. (but
you can login if the cursor has been moved at the beginning of the "login:"
line).
I think this problem only affects wheezy, because on irc some other users
confirmed that squeeze has not this kind of problem.
I think the problem has something to do with the getty program (instead of the
login program) because "ps auxf" shows that while 'weird-mode' is on the only
program on the tty is getty.
It happens on all the six ttys and sometime i find some (never used) tty like
tty4 with part of the "login:" string deleted and the cursor is some characters
before
the prompt.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_IE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
bye
Carlo
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--- Begin Message ---
version: 2.24.2-1
I'm closing this bug now since the fix for the bug you reported was
included in the new (upstream) version.
If you can still reproduce it feel free to reopen and provide more info.
thanks
regards
althaser
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