[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#480369: Login goes upper case

[Nicolas François]

forcemerge 135170 284009 278853 480369
thanks

On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 08:32:16PM +0200, Christian.Perrier at onera.fr wrote:
> Quoting Hansgeorg Schwibbe (hansgeorg.schwibbe at gmx.de):
> > Package: login
> > Version: 4.0.18.1-7
> >
> > This day I logged out from debian. When I connected a network cable, and  
> > the login goes to upper case letters.
> > Then (independent from the caps lock key) all keyboard inputs are also in 
> > upper case letters.
> >
> > The photo in the attachment shows the problem in a more detailed way.
> 
> 
> IIRC, this is not a bug but a feature in some conditions. I don't
> remember which one, but we had such a bug report in the past already.

Yes, it is a getty feature to detect CAP only terminals.

If it happens, you should exceed the number of login failures to make
login return to getty, which should reset the terminal.

BTW, I'm merging those bugs.

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral