Re: New Login

[joost@rulcmc.leidenuniv.nl (joost witteveen)]

> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know how to make the login program in bo disable echo sooner?
> The login program from rex was quite a bit faster. Ie when I type in my
> user/pass pair I usually do it all at once, during the first boot various
> daemons are still swapping around so by the time it's got around to
> displaying Password: and disabling echo half the password has been echoed
> to the screen!

I've seen that in pre-rex, rex, bo, and currently in unstable too. I don't
think it depends on the version of login very much, but more on what
you are starting/running in the background (and probably what HD you
have, how much memory, etc). I suspect the longin programme disables
echo immedeately after it recieves the RETURN (after you type your
loging name), but the kernel simply isn't giving the login programme any
time-slices. So appart from running the login programme at real-time
priority (and thus halting the rest from your system), I don't think
there is much you can do.

BTW, I suspect the reason you didn't notice it that much in rex must
have been that you eighter had installed less packages that start something
at boottime, or that you now type faster (or some other reason
of that kind).


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joost witteveen, joostje@debian.org
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