reassign 221290 util-linux thanks Hi!
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 05:53:40PM +0200, Helge Kreutzmann wrote: > first of all, I found out, that if I enter a "sane" login name (does > not need to exist) and press enter twice, then I can safely enter > umlauts, even delete them (no visual artefacts) and everything is fine > after login. This is because several subsequent "login:" prompts are provided and processed by /bin/login, not by getty. After several attempts failed (or timeout expired) /bin/login exits and /sbin/getty is restarted on this tty by /sbin/init... > So only the first call to getty is vulnerable to this > effect. If I exceed the "maximum number of tries", the next getty is > back to the "old" behaviour, with visual artefacts and so on. Yes, because actually those are different "login:" prompts, some provided by /sbin/getty and some by /bin/login (as explained above). Visual appearance of those "login:" prompts is the same though, and this is done intentionally, I think. This is confusing, of course, but IIRC this behaviour is in Unices since ages. > It works as intended. Good. :^) > correctly). So I guess the next step would be to find out where the > default settings are stored, so that the wrapper could retrieve the > default set instead of hard coded corrections? IMHO, getty could be patched easily, maybe some option may be added to suppress "tty-bitness-autodetection" feature and this would be done by people with more experience WRT linux console (and other kinds of ttys), so I wouldn't perhaps want to extend/improve the wrapper script further. But more important reason is that I just don't know how to find this "sane" set of options/defaults for linux virtual console... :-/ I.e. at the moment I don't have any clue about this. > Should we reassign to getty? Yes, /sbin/getty is in util-linux package, thus reassigning to its authors. P.S. On my system /sbin/getty is run with nothing regarding locale in environment (you can check this with `ps -C getty ue | less`), so it's effectively in "POSIX" locale, I think. IMHO, all this tty-tuning should be done independently of locale/system locale etc. There are some scripts for setting keymap, console fonts, switching virtual console to utf8 mode and so on, and I think that _only_ these scripts should "tune" linux virtual consoles, while getty shouldn't touch them afterwards... -- WBR, xrgtn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
