My original question was:-
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A group of users require that they login with username and password in
upper-case.
As a test, I created a username and password in upper-case. On logging-in,
the username is accepted but from thereon the operating system places a
backslash before each character as it seems to think that the terminal
supports only upper-case. Hence the password is not accepted.
With SunOs, the file /etc/gettytab can be set-up with terminals having the
lc parameter which lets the operating system know that the terminal can
support lower case.
Is there a way of setting up LAT terminals such that usernames and passwords
in upper-case can be specified? The user enters an application package after
logging on.
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Thanks to Jason Neil <jan_at_nzxray.galen.co.nz> who replied:-
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My advice is not to use lat. lat uses getty processes which have the age
old process of screwing up your uppercase logins. I think it tries to
convert everything to upper case, which can cause problems as you might
expect. telnet works fine. If you use telnet with your terminal
servers, the telnetd is used on the host. This is what we use because
our clients would prefer to login in uppercase aswell.
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Received on Mon Feb 12 1996 - 20:49:42 NZDT