[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#432335: Bug#432335: Can't login when upper case letters were enforced on me

[Nicolas François]

tags 432335 confirmed
thanks

On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 03:44:26PM +0200, shaulka at 012.net.il wrote:
> 
>   I had a login (lower case) prompt and mistakenly put my elbow on the keybord.
> As a result the following was entered as the user name:
> 
>     [[C4[[D[[E[17~78[18~[19~
> 
> so I got a LOGIN INCORRECT message. In addition, I was prompted for the
> user name and pssword by upper case letters ( HOSTNAME LOGIN and PASSWORD).
> Echoing the user name that I entered was also in upper case letters.
>   I couldn't login, even though I entered the correct password (LOGIN INCORRECT).
> Finally I got a MAXIMUM NUMBER OF TRIES EXCEEDED (5) message. After that,
> the contents of /etc/issue was displayed and login got back to the usual lower case
> letters. 
>   Now I can login again.

I have a simple patch: "Do not mistakenly put your elbow on the keyboard" ;)

That being said, I confirm that I can reproduce this bug, and will try to
have a closer look next week-end.

Thank for the bug report,
-- 
Nekral