>AHA!  All UPPER CASE LOGINS!  I remember *THIS* problem from the old 4.2
>days at the local community college (VAX 11/750 running 4.[123] BSD).

Teletype terminals and the like(?)
Is a VAX 11/750 a pdp 11?

>I'll bet you get things like:
>
>NetBSD/xxxx 1.1 (pop) (console)
>
>login: FOOBAR
>\PASSWORD:

Actually:

login: FOOBAR
password:
login: FOOBAR
password:

and then we're inside.

>Traditionally, if the entire login was UPPERCASE, getty would think that
>you were on a funny kind of terminal only capable of typing uppercase
>characters, such as a real old TTY, or a TI silentwriter or something,
>and it would switch your tty mode to (sg.sg_flags | O_LCASE) (or something,
>I haven't hacked a tty-switcher in a while).

#if XXX
                        if (upper || UC)
                                tmode.sg_flags |= LCASE;
                        if (lower || LC)
                                tmode.sg_flags &= ~LCASE;
#endif

I don't know why #if XXX is there. Why is it there?
UC is like the /etc/gettytab: uc bool false      terminal is known upper
case only
LC is like the /etc/gettytab: lc bool false      terminal has lower case
???

>If you're getting lowercase responses, then only half the problem has been
>fixed.

That's what it does, convert to lowercase, but not letting you in.
Then the second time, behind getname(), it does let you in with the
uppper-case name.

>Another fix would be to not use ALL uppercase logins; i.e. maybe capitalize
>them if necessary?  (This would be The Right Way, actually.)

All uppercase logins are a 'no no' in the unix-world??
Just change them with vipw, and leave it to that??
(creating a discrepance between RW and passwd.master)
Shouldn't i trace again, using f.i. syslog() after getname()??
Shouldn't it be: upper && (UC && !LC) => tolower => inside and
                 upper && !(UC && !LC) => upper && (!UC || LC) => inside?
I don't know the precidence of those &&/|| things,
but that's diff. from the source:
                 upper && !LC || UC => tolower

so i have to check my gettytab (i think U/LC are set to default) and
retrace the getty code...

please comment,
~n