Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 22:31:16 -0500 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: gyliamos@gmail.com Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ssh + su problem Message-ID: <CA%2BtpaK3g41JbdSy%2BpnbxaV7Ts1sX6N4J5gE=iQjdSb8gO93rYw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <slrnlousu1.1jd.varro@anukis.local> References: <slrnlokc4u.2it.varro@anukis.local> <20140601231728.9decb4f8b733c26bf040f963@yahoo.es> <slrnlosgkh.2le.varro@anukis.local> <20140604061922.GA2130@La-Habana> <slrnlousu1.1jd.varro@anukis.local>
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On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Will Parsons <varro@nodomain.invalid> wrote: > > > Thanks. Although I haven't solved the problem yet, I now know from > the truss output that the immediate cause is that my root password > contains the sequence "'A", and this was getting translated to > meta-A. (It would have course been obvious if the password echo were > not being surpressed.) > > Curiously enough, although translation happens both for Cygwin ssh and > PuTTY, they do different things. > > On cygwin ssh, if type 'A on the command line, I see: > > \303\201 > > Using PuTTY: > > \301 > > (which I guess is meta-A) > > I'm not sure where this is coming from, but if all else fails, I think > I should be able to get around it by changing my root password. Not sure if related but Cygwin has tty issues. To avoid that, I use the Cygwin console login rather than terminal login. -- Adam
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