Bug#221290: [OBORONA-SPAM] [?? Probable Spam] Bug#221290: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#221290: Bug #221290 still here: screen garbled after entering high-ascii characters at login prompt

[Helge Kreutzmann]

Hello Alexander,
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:48:46PM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote:
> After a small, fast and simple check I conclude that
> the issue with setting cs7 on terminal after entering
> non-ascii letters into "login:" prompt is really a
> probem with /sbin/getty (util-linux pkg).

Confirmed (but see below).

> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 07:49:14PM +0300, Alexander Gattin wrote:
> Steps that I took in order to check the issue:
> 1) created an executable script /root/stty.sh:
 
> After this I switch to tty8 and can play entering
> different login names onto "login:" prompt and seeing
> what `stty -a` tells me, immediately.

Yes, on a quick look (I will do more tomorrow) I see how Umlaute
change the stty settings. But there is a notable difference: If I
enter
ä <Enter> ä
on un "normal" login, the second "ä" is changed to "d". On the
prepared terminal, however, this is not the case.

What I do see is, that:
ä <Backspace> <Enter>
b <Enter>
still has cs7, while skipping the backspace, i.e.
ä <Enter>
b <Enter>
I get cs8. So obviously the combination of "ä" and "backspace" is
rememberd by getty, while single umlaute are "forgotten" on the next
login prompt. On the "normal" login, the effect is, however, the same.

> P.S. so if nobody objects, I'll reassign the bug to
> util-linux soon.

I don't understand the intrinsics of the login-getty interaction, but
this makes sense to me.

Greetings

            Helge
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