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From: Ron Johnson on 20 Jul 2010 03:00 On 07/19/2010 11:37 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:35, Ron Johnson<ron.l.johnson(a)cox.net> wrote: > > <snip> >> >> Anyway, in a gooey world, you click on an icon. > > Heretic! ;-) > Nay, a saf acceptor of the reality that the world wants to point, click and top-post using web gmail. There's nothing I can do to stop it, long though I fought the good fight in the days of yore before you arrived... -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C4548CE.8030807(a)cox.net
From: Ron Johnson on 20 Jul 2010 03:10 On 07/20/2010 12:02 AM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> Thanks. This will simply(?) be a generic/guest account on the >> centrally-located PC. It's the user that will stay logged in so that >> people have quick access to Google, dict, etc. > > If it is just a generic guest account then why go with the mixed case? > Why not just go with 'guest'? That would be the normal "guest" login. :-) > That's what I wound up doing, since I discovered that gdm uses the /etc/passwd Name column in the display. -- Seek truth from facts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C45496D.6090701(a)cox.net
From: Tzafrir Cohen on 22 Jul 2010 04:10 On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:50:16AM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Mon July 19 2010 11:16:12 Ron Johnson wrote: > > Why aren't they recommended? > > Back when us dinosaurs ruled the earth an upper case > login signified an upper-case-only input device, and > the login software automatically lower-cased the input > before validating the login. > > I don't know if any such software remains in Debian. Hmm... just tried logging in with an all-caps name (chaged the password to numbers only for the test), and failed to login. Is this feature(?) gone now from getty? -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzafrir(a)jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzafrir(a)cohens.org.il | | best tzafrir(a)debian.org | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100722080634.GH17569(a)pear.tzafrir.org.il
From: Bob Proulx on 22 Jul 2010 04:20
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Hmm... just tried logging in with an all-caps name (chaged the password > to numbers only for the test), and failed to login. Is this feature(?) > gone now from getty? How were you logging in? A real serial port login? Or just a console login using the pty driver? In /etc/inittab for the lines with getty on the serial port you would need to add -U to get this capability. T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -U -L ttyS0 9600 vt100 I would think you could get the same behavior on the linux console too. I haven't tried it recently. Note: I seem to recall that there is a bug in recent years near this in the getty code or some such that causes it to fail to set iuclc but my brain does not recall it at this moment. Bob |