Re: login and terminal character recognition

2001-06-21 Thread Chris Majewski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: No, that is not the problem. I can for example type a whole lot of characters on the screen and then delete them and then type in root and the password and that works fine. It is something to do with the amount /range of characters you type before the terminal

RE: login and terminal character recognition

2001-06-18 Thread Steve Barr
Now I know this has something to do with the virtual terminal not recognising the keys properly when I type them. It must be that the word root doesn't have enough characters for the terminal to detect what type it should be emulating? or something? When I type in my username to login

Re: login and terminal character recognition

2001-06-18 Thread mdevin
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 06:05:11AM -0400, Steve Barr wrote: Now I know this has something to do with the virtual terminal not recognising the keys properly when I type them. It must be that the word root doesn't have enough characters for the terminal to detect what type it should be

login and terminal character recognition

2001-06-17 Thread mdevin
I have just installed debian potato again and now I seem to have a problem with logging in. When I reboot the system and then try to log in on a virtual terminal as root it refuses telling me login incorrect. When I log in as a user and then log out and then log back in as root it works fine.