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!?
Once upon a time, a long, long time ago, in a faraway land (in the days
of the teletype) not all terminals were capable of lower-case
characters. The age of the punched cards, punched tape and when CRTs
were merely "some new-fangled technology"...
So when you try to log in with a all-uppercase username, it assumes that
you have one of those ancient (carbon-14-dateable) terminals.
IIRC, you *should* be able to undo the effects by:
$ stty -olcuc -iuclc
which will probably appear on-screen as:
$ STTY -OLCUC -IUCLC
:-)
I doubt whether there is any need for that feature nowadays - except
perhaps to let people log in even though they suffer from "caps-lock
syndrome"...
HTH
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