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Fun trick (I don't know if it still works): on the login prompt of your Linux (or other Unix) machine, type your username in all caps. This sets some strange te

by cesarb 4y ago

Fun trick (I don't know if it still works): on the login prompt of your Linux (or other Unix) machine, type your username in all caps. This sets some strange termios(3) modes, which convert all lowercase output to UPPERCASE and all UPPERCASE input to lowercase. These modes are, AFAIK, for compatibility with these uppercase-only terminals.

tracker1 4y ago
good luck with multi-case passwords...
- codetrotter 4y ago
  Wait. You guys use passwords on your computers??
chrismorgan 4y ago
Just tried it. Didn’t work. (I tried it on a regular Linux virtual terminal (as is my normal way—I don’t use a graphical login manager), with my password in correct/inverted/upper/lower case, none work. It’s conceivable a pam module could make it work or something like that. I’m not investigating.)
- op00to 4y ago
  Is your distribution still using getty?
  - chrismorgan 4y ago
    Arch Linux with no meaningful configuration changes in this area. I understand so.
    - op00to 4y ago
      It's possible they disabled the switch in getty that enables the uppercase detection, it's -U....
zdimension 4y ago
You got any more info on that? I can't find anything online that talks about this trick
- deleted 4y ago
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- op00to 4y ago
  http://man.he.net/man8/getty http://man.he.net/man8/getty getty -U