RE: Login with user name in CAPS
> Hi list,
>
> I just logged in with my user name accidentelly in CAPS and the system
> let me log in. More suprisingly, everything that is printed on the
> terminal is in CAPS, too, including everything I type in lower case.
> Escape sequences for colorizing the terminal don't work either. This
> will work with both user accounts and root, but only on the console and
> not with su (su reports an unknown user).
>
> Is this a bug or a feature? Or is it a feature that used to be a bug?
>
I didn't know linux did this. It's an old unix feature.
Way back when, there were terminals that only had uppercase.
If you logged in with UPPER case, it assumes you can only
do uppper case and the driver lower cases all your input
and upper cases all the output. I assume this is a relic
of days gone bye. I have seen warning messages that say
to use lower case...
jim
> Puzzled,
> Viktor
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