On Tue, 2002-01-22 at 21:53, Tony Preston wrote:
> I am running a vanilla Redhat 6.2 distribution.  It is for a project
> and the customer wants minimum changes (everything works except for one
> thing so why upgrade).
> 
> One minor problem is that when the system is freshly booted, and the
> login prompt appears, you put in the correct username and password and
> it returns an error and makes you do it again.  The second time always
> works, but the first time will give an error.
> 
> I remember that there was some fix for this, but not what rpms need to
> be updated.  Can anyone tell me either what needs updating or where I
> might look to find out?

Hit the alt key instead of the spacebar to unblank the screen. Or
backspace before entering the the username.  " myname"  is not the same
as "myname"  

At least that is what I have encountered.  I have several 6.2 boxes and
never had any problems of that sort that I recall.

Bret



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