On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:19:15AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > There comes a neat little proggie since I think Sarge called francine > which is a console login program or wrapper displaying a nice debian > logo and prompt for login and password like. cool! > > I was overwhelmed when I discovered it thinking it will be so nice to > show it to my friends, then. Running normally, the program accepts the > user and password and logs you in. But if run thru inittab using > rungetty (as is suggested in the man page), whatever username I login > as, it tells me to go away. The usual failed message that it gives if > you just hit enter without a user/pass. > > It had this behaviour since the first time I discovered it and it's > been like more than 2 years now. May be even 4. > > I don't know if the problem is with francine or with rungetty but if > either has the problem, they shouldn't be included in stable then, > isn't it? only if its a bug and someone reports it ;). Have you checked the bug reports for it? hmmm... looked pretty lightly maintained, if at all. upstream (sourceforge) looks dead and its parent, fancylogin doesn't look much better. That said, it may be that there's nothing more to be done with it... A
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