On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 04:45:31PM +0100, jserrachinha wrote: > if i login with ROOT (UPPERCASE in ttyx) > and password, the chars are all in uppercase. > Is this a feature!?
Yes, it is. It's a historical relic of very old terminals which only had upper-case alphabetical characters. See, for instance: http://www.cs.rit.edu/~hpb/Man/_Man_SunOS_4.1.3_html/html8/getty.8.html If you find yourself logged in this way and don't want to log out and back in with a lower-case username to fix it, type: stty -lcase (Of course, it'll appear as 'STTY -LCASE' while you're typing it.) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
