Re: Why ROOT all in uppercase
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:58:15PM +0200, Rudy Gevaert wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:45:31PM +0100, jserrachinha wrote:
> > if i login with ROOT (UPPERCASE in ttyx)
> > and password, the chars are all in uppercase.
> > Is this a feature!?
>
> I think I read somewhere that this is something left over from UNIX.
Once upon a time, long, long ago, there were character terminals that
knew *only* uppercase. They were not able to display lowercase. If there
were no lower case letters in your login, the system assumed that you
were on one of those terminals.
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