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 | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best tzaf...@debian.org | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100722080634.gh17...@pear.tzafrir.org.il
