Re: Login problem

["Seneca Cunningham" <seneca@slemish.com>]

Cameron Matheson <cmatheson3@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I'm probably missing something here... but can't you just wait for the
> password prompt?

I could, but I don't want to always check my timing. Normally I just type at
full speed like foo did, and the password prompt comes up before the
password gets in. But sometimes the password prompt takes a moment before it
comes up, and some characters of my password get exposed.

> about the source... are you sure that the archive is good?  Does it have a
> .gz or .tgz extension?  If it's a .bz2 then you will need to use bunzip2

The filename is shadow_20000902.orig.tar.gz

> instead of gunzip.

> On Tuesday 15 January 2002 08:16 pm, Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> > I downloaded the source so that I could see if I could do anything about
> > it, but gzip is complaining that it isn't in gzip format. Is there any
> > special package I need to get to be able to decompress the source? I
have
> > gzip version 1.3.2-3, tar 1.13.25-1, and login 20000902-8.

Thanks for any help,

Seneca
seneca@slemish.com