From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 30 18:35:15 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id SAA20052 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 30 Jan 1995 18:35:15 -0800 Received: from seagull.rtd.com (root@Seagull.rtd.com [198.102.68.2]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA20046 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 1995 18:35:13 -0800 Received: (from dgy@localhost) by seagull.rtd.com (8.6.9/8.6.9.1) id TAA21841 for freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com; Mon, 30 Jan 1995 19:35:00 -0700 From: Don Yuniskis Message-Id: <199501310235.TAA21841@seagull.rtd.com> Subject: user id's To: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Date: Mon, 30 Jan 1995 19:35:00 -0700 (MST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 874 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings! This may be a "silly" question, but I haven't found a "silly" answer in a cursory examination of the sources... Re: FBSD 1.1.5.1R (but I suspect *all* *BSD's) I (unfortunately) mix upper and lower case in user id's. I've noticed that a few id's which consist solely of uppercase characters are prompted for a password (even tho' a password is not required for the user) ONLY ON THE FIRST ATTEMPT. A subsequent attempt (after "illegal password") will accept the uppercase login. I imagine this is due to the support for "single-case" only terminals (in which the uppercase chars are converted to lowercase and, since no such user exists, the "Password:" prompt is issued). However, it ONLY HAPPENS WITH CERTAIN ID's. I have several other all uppercase id's and they are accepted first-time, every-time. Ideas? Pointers?? Thx, --don