Re: Login with user name in CAPS
Viktor Rosenfeld writes:
> Is this a bug or a feature? Or is it a feature that used to be a bug?
Morten Liebach writes:
> ...it turned out (according to someone on an OpenBSD mailinglist) that
> it's an ageold UNIX bug
It is a feature, and always has been. It exists to support monocase
terminals.
> Funny to meet it in Linux though ...
Why? It just means that Linux terminal handling is correct. I suspect
that this may be a POSIX requirement.
> I'm sorry, but I can't help you, does a reboot fix it?
Of course it will, as will logging out and back in again, or just typing
'reset'.
Viktor Rosenfeld writes:
> su reports an unknown user
A bug in su.
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John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, Wisconsin
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