Ken Irving wrote: > > > > > I just logged in with my user name accidentelly in CAPS and the system > > let me log in. More suprisingly, everything that is printed on the > > terminal is in CAPS, too, including everything I type in lower case. > > Escape sequences for colorizing the terminal don't work either. This > > will work with both user accounts and root, but only on the console and > > not with su (su reports an unknown user). > > > > Is this a bug or a feature? Or is it a feature that used to be a bug? > > I tried doing this on a SuSE box, but it failed to log me in, perhaps > because my password has both upper and lower case. Presumably this would > only work if your password is all lower (or all upper?) case, otherwise > I can't see how the password would be validated.
Well, I discovered it when logging in as root on a box, that has no password because it's not connected to anything and I'm still playing with the configuration. I then tried it out on my working machine which has passwords in place, of course, but I typed the password in the right case. BTW, when I enter `LS`, I'll get an error message as expected, but when I enter `ls`, which is echoed in upper case, I will get a directory listing. Obviously the system distinguishes between upper and lower case, but everything gets printed in upper case. MfG Viktor PS: Back on the list. -- Viktor Rosenfeld E-Mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] HertzSCHLAG: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/hs/
