Subject: Re: (1) getty/login, (2) NFS options
To: der Mouse <mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@cs.orst.edu>
List: current-users
Date: 08/17/1994 11:01:25
On Tue, 16 Aug 1994 16:55:44 -0400
der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> wrote:
> (1) I have been unable to get logins working on /dev/ttya. I turn it
> on in /etc/ttys, HUP init, and the login prompt shows up fine.
> Then I type a username and RETURN (which echo correctly), and it
> says, instead of the Password: prompt I would expect, @8@@@@9w
> (with no newline after it). Nothing I type at this point has any
> effect I can discern, until some timeout expires, at which point it
> utters the cryptic string @@@@@@]@@PW@P8@@@(@@@@9\@@^@~ and prints
> another prompt from getty. I would assume this is a baud-rate
> problem, except that stty insists that the baud rate is the same
> both when getty is reading a username and when login is reading a
> password. When getty is in control:
Try turning off `ap' and hard-code the parity...I've seen similar
behavior on an hp300...turning off `ap' worked...
Later...
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