Seneca Cunningham wrote: > > I have a problem that seems like login is working too slowly for my > computer, or my computer is too slow for login (a little more likely). > Occasionally I get results similar to the results for this fictional user. > > Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 icosagon tty2 > > icosagon login: foo > baPassword: > Login incorrect > > As is quite guessable, the password for user foo is bar. foo typed in bar, > but only the 'r' makes it into the password entry. The "ba" is merely output > to the screen. If foo were to see that "ba" was visible, and knew that it > hadn't been entered into the password entry, foo could have logged in if the > full "bar" had been typed after the "ba", leaving the total password typing > of foo at "babar". > > I downloaded the source so that I could see if I could do anything about it, > but gzip is complaining that it isn't in gzip format. Is there any special > package I need to get to be able to decompress the source? I have gzip > version 1.3.2-3, tar 1.13.25-1, and login 20000902-8. > > Thanks for any help, > > Seneca > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
any recompiling or upgrading will be useless - you just can't send keystrokes to a program that didn't started yet! getty asks for username, then starts login that asks for the password; the transition from getty to login takes some time... i'm afraid the only thing you can do is wait... pietro.
