[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#507094: Login, and the shell presented after login, are in all caps when an arrow key ([A, [D, [B, [C) is typed as a login name

Nicolas François nicolas.francois at centraliens.net
Sun Apr 5 23:07:37 UTC 2009


reassign 507094 util-linux
thanks

On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 03:10:36PM -0800, Jeff Welling wrote:
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>
> When any of the arrow keys ([A, [D, [B, [C) are used as a login name  
> (And no additional text) when logging in from a Terminal (Not SSH), all  
> text outputed thereafter until login is restarted is in caps. 

Even if this is a feature from agetty, it might be useful to restrict the
backwards caps compat to isgraph characters.

I will leave it open to the util-linux maintainer.

Best Regards,
-- 
Nekral





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