On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:45:31PM +0100, jserrachinha wrote: > if i login with ROOT (UPPERCASE in ttyx) > and password, the chars are all in uppercase. > Is this a feature!?
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, in a faraway land (in the days of the teletype) not all terminals were capable of lower-case characters. The age of the punched cards, punched tape and when CRTs were merely "some new-fangled technology"... So when you try to log in with a all-uppercase username, it assumes that you have one of those ancient (carbon-14-dateable) terminals. IIRC, you *should* be able to undo the effects by: $ stty -olcuc -iuclc which will probably appear on-screen as: $ STTY -OLCUC -IUCLC :-) I doubt whether there is any need for that feature nowadays - except perhaps to let people log in even though they suffer from "caps-lock syndrome"... HTH -- Karl E. Jørgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://karl.jorgensen.com I'm currently out trying to find myself. If I should get back before I return, please keep me here.
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