Re: Login problem

[Pietro Cagnoni <pcagnoni@mclink.net>]

Seneca Cunningham wrote:
> 
> I have a problem that seems like login is working too slowly for my
> computer, or my computer is too slow for login (a little more likely).
> Occasionally I get results similar to the results for this fictional user.
> 
>         Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 icosagon tty2
> 
>         icosagon login: foo
>         baPassword:
>         Login incorrect
> 
> As is quite guessable, the password for user foo is bar. foo typed in bar,
> but only the 'r' makes it into the password entry. The "ba" is merely output
> to the screen. If foo were to see that "ba" was visible, and knew that it
> hadn't been entered into the password entry, foo could have logged in if the
> full "bar" had been typed after the "ba", leaving the total password typing
> of foo at "babar".
> 
> 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

any recompiling or upgrading will be useless - you just can't send
keystrokes to a program that didn't started yet!

getty asks for username, then starts login that asks for the password;
the transition from getty to login takes some time...

i'm afraid the only thing you can do is wait...

pietro.